The wife and I came home this evening from our weekend with my parents in good old St. Louis. After getting settled in, unpacking and checking email, we find that Juri’s brother from Japan sent a concerned note about a Kansas City shooting. Immediately, I’m surprised that he would know about something like […]

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Tonight in the citizen’s police academy, we got a visit from the crime scene investigators and the fingerprinting experts. They will use Photoshop to enhance the image so they can recover a print. Some were asking that since there is a comparison database available, is the job of the fingerprint identifier in jeopardy.  Not likely, […]

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Thank goodness. Kansas City has a Anti-terrorism organization in place to help protect us. They are called the Terrorism Early Warning Group. At their site, you can get references as pointless as recognizing suspicious packages.

I suppose we are going to be safer now that this group will be first with the information on terrorist attacks. […]

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This 10 week Citizen Police academy is going to be over way too quick.

Police school rules!

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One of my libraries, Johnson County Library in Kansas created this “killer” book list of forensics titles at the library. Kudos to who put it together. I’m going to paste the list here because I don’t know how long they rotate out their pages. It might be gone tomorrow.
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I’m in my first class I’ve attended as a student in quite some time. I saw a newspaper article a while back about a group attending the citizen’s police academy. This ten week course gives you all kinds of insights on how the police work. I wanted to be the first to sign up for […]

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