The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display ...

At the Portland Police Bureau's North Precinct, Officer Jason Hubert is getting ready to fire a confiscated handgun into a thick metal bullet trap filled a thick sludge called snake oil. He's about to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Until recently, New York City police secretly kept fingerprints of children arrested as juveniles on file permanently in a department database — an illegal practice that has raised ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...

Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A database of finger and palm prints used by law enforcement and child welfare workers is in danger of failing and needs to be replaced, a Kansas Bureau of Investigation official ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) announced it has finished a nearly $6.9 million overhaul of the state’s ...

Researchers have stumbled upon a publicly accessible biometric database that exposed more than a million people’s fingerprints, along with a wealth of other personal data. Cybersecurity experts Noam ...

At the Portland Police Bureau's North Precinct, Officer Jason Hubert is getting ready to fire a confiscated handgun into a thick metal bullet trap filled a thick sludge called snake oil. He's about to ...

A federal database of shell casings was expanded to over 200 local law enforcement agencies this year to let police use it in investigations that... 'Ballistic Fingerprint' Database Expands Amid ...