Crime Scene
Development of Advanced Raman Spectroscopy Methods and Databases for the Evaluation of Trace Evidence and the Examination of Questioned Documents-Phase II
NIJ's Innovative Research Spans Variety of Forensic Fields
Study Identifies Ways To Improve ATF Ballistic Evidence Program
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 8, Hotel Madison, Mount Vernon A + B Washington, DC January 16 - 17, 2000
Significance of Elemental Analysis from Trace Evidence
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 9: Regal Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago, Illinois, April 9 - 10, 2000
Taking Presumptive Drug Testing From the Field to the Cloud!
A Sexual Assault Kit Partnership
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Development of a SNP Assay Panel for Ancestral Origin Inference and Individuals Somatic Traits
How Reliable Are Latent Fingerprint Examiners?
Brian Cerchiai discusses a NIJ-supported a study conducted by the Miami-Dade Police Department on the accuracy of fingerprint examiners. The study found that fingerprint examiners make extremely few errors. Even when examiners did not get an independent second opinion about their decisions, they were remarkably accurate. But when decisions were verified by an independent reviewers, examiners had a 0% false positive, or incorrect identification, rate and a 3% false negative, or missed identification, rate.
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