First developed in the 1950s by a dutch rally racer, speed cameras have come a long way. All major cities in the world and cross-continent highways all over the globe have installed them to make roads safer, turning them into one of the most valuable tools for law enforcement. In the US alone, there are […]

There was a time when police departments handled all evidence management in basically the same way. It was a paper-based procedure that started at the crime scene, with an officer collecting a piece of evidence, tagging it, and placing the evidence in a bag. Then, they wrote information on the bag, such as a case […]

Dashcams and body cams have changed the way we think about evidence in police-related and civilian legal incidents. Interestingly, this isn’t the first time emerging technologies have changed judges, lawyers, and juries’ expectations for evidence in court cases. The so-called “CSI effect” appeared in the early to mid-2000s when police procedural dramas brought forensic evidence […]