Category Archives: Law Enforcement
March 27, 2012
The consumerization of IT is an oft-quoted trend in IT circles: how dramatic changes in employee digital behaviour are transforming how businesses manage their digital content.
It turns out the same behavior changes in criminals are transforming the legal system. As an example, a collection of digital evidence overwhelmingly convinced jurors in the recent Rutgers suicide case.
Sure, fingerprints and DNA remain central to fighting crime. But the tide is shifting, and digital evidence is more and more often the make-the-case content for investigators and prosecutors. Continue reading »
February 7, 2012
Benchmark Magazine reviewed BriefCam’s VS Forensics product, a breakthrough innovation in video evidence analysis. The product received high marks – an 84% overall rating, and a Benchmark recommendation.
In the process they made an interesting observation: the move to digital video surveillance is extremely disruptive, yet organization are adopting it in droves. This puts stress on law enforcement organizations that they must find a way to overcome. Continue reading »
December 23, 2011
Cops work hard.
If there was a “Top Ten Hardest Working Careers” list, I’m sure law enforcement would be at or near the top.
But while having a strong work ethic is admirable, sometimes it’s not enough. Continue reading »
December 5, 2011
Full Disc Encryption, or FDE, is a perplexing problem for criminal investigators. Data stored on hard drives with FDE is fully encrypted on the drive. Without the password, investigators see nothing but a bunch of ones and zeroes.
How do crime fighters get access to this crucial evidence in content-based crimes like fraud, identity theft and child pornography?
Rather than a frontal assault, they look for a back door: copies of the evidence. Continue reading »
November 17, 2011
The optical disc is the de facto standard in the law enforcement community for the collection and sharing of digital evidence. But there’s more to an evidence disc than what a PC burner and a Sharpie pen can provide.
Here’s what an evidence disc needs to successfully get your digital evidence from the field to the courtroom:
Permanent. Discs and labels Continue reading »
September 15, 2011
There have been four Waves of Surveillance technology:
The First Wave of Surveillance was having security guards make the rounds.
The Second Wave of Surveillance was the CCTV live feed. The security guard could watch from his perch in the lobby. Continue reading »
August 2, 2011
I had the privilege of spending time with a Tech Ops team inside a major metropolitan police department this week. It opened my eyes to technology’s role in fighting crime.
Digital content is critical to two major areas of law enforcement: before a suspect is caught, and after a crime is committed. Continue reading »
April 1, 2011
Compression is a powerful productivity tool for surveillance. Reduce the complexity or resolution of something and you make it shorter, smaller, faster, easier to store and easier to send. But there’s a price to pay.
The more you compress, the more you degrade, and the more likely that you will miss something. And that is just the opposite of what surveillance by definition is all about. Continue reading »
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