Evidence analysis and processing
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
Latent Prints
DNA Discipline
Firearms
Controlled Substances
Digital Multimedia Evidence
Toxicology Discipline
Trace DNA From Fingernails: Increasing the Success Rate of Widely Collected Forensic Evidence
New Orleans Sexual Assault Evidence Project: Results and Recommendations
Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Lantern v2.3
Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Secure View 3v3.8.0
Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Device Seizure v5.0 build 4582.15907
Five Things Law Enforcement Executives Can Do To Make a Difference
Wrongful Conviction: What Does Science Tell Us About the Causes?
Regioisomer Differentiation for Substances Using GC-IR
Fighting Crime With Science
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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