Agents use new tools to trace handguns
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The shell casings had barely cooled on a Brooklyn street when federal agents began trying to unwrap a mystery: How did three pistols get in the hands of the men who gunned down two police officers?
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SELLS, Arizona  - An elite group of Native American trackers that use skills handed down from the ancestral hunt is being tapped to play a larger role in securing the United States' borders.
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A new digital authentication technique supplies forensic art experts with a new tool to distinguish paintings by masters from those by imitators, scientists say.
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Teams of police officers equipped with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs have become a part of the landscape of post-Sept. 11 New York, patrolling around Wall Street and such landmarks as the Empire State building.
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Looks to commercial surveillance tools
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The Los Angeles Police Department is experimenting with facial-recognition software it says will help identify suspects, but civil liberties advocates say the technology raises privacy concerns and may not identity people accurately.
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The FBI system used to conduct instant background checks on would-be gun buyers suffered several software-related outages on Sunday and Monday but has since been repaired.
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The US Department of Homeland Security unveiled new computer workstations Thursday that allow Border Patrol agents on the Canadian and Mexican borders to tap into the FBI&#39;s fingerprint database, overcoming a technological hurdle that
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Experts believe the weapons are secure for now, but they worry about what will happen when new officers take over
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Â· Lawyers for convicted pair point to fresh evidenceÂ· Shooting of three drug dealers featured in films
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People sniffing wireless network traffic have many tools at their disposal to intercept sensitive data from PCs.
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Submachine gun, check. Semiautomatic pistol, check. Personal digital assistant, check. In addition to their usual weaponry, some officers responsible for securing federal buildings at the Republican convention are armed with devices like handheld computers.
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Already in use are such things as infrared cameras with built-in brains that capture license plate images and match them in milliseconds to police records of vehicles of interest to the authorities
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InfoWorld - An organization in Mumbai, India has proposed that police use key-logging software at cybercaf&#233;s to keep track of communications between terrorists.
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A security organization has suggested police use key-logging software to track communications between terrorists.
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Global positioning systems (GPS), digital photography and computer databases are joining the humble paint can as U.S. cities battle to obliterate graffiti and catch its shadowy perpetrators.
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A mobile wireless system being tested in Oregon allows police officers in the field to check fingerprints against state and national databases.