Posts Tagged ‘police’

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 03, 2008 - 06:15AM CT
Say you need to solve an axe murder—what do you do? If you’re a detective in a 19th-century Russian novel, you play mind games with the unstable suspect until he turns himself in. If you’re a 21st-century cop, you check the head games [...]

Via Second life research
21 July, 2007
According to PHYSORG.com, “[...] police in Canada are turning to an unusual candidate pool for crime fighters: the virtual world of Second Life.
“Policing has to reflect society, and as technology becomes more pervasive in society, we have to make sure that officers we hire are familiar with the technology,” said Inspector [...]

Via ARS Technica
By John Timmer | Published: September 18, 2008 - 09:45PM CT
The US court system may still be trying to sort out how many of the legal protections offered to the press apply to bloggers, but many countries are leaving little doubt that their laws do indeed apply to bloggers. Unfortunately, these tend to [...]

Via the New York Times - By John Eligon

Christopher Long, 29, a bicyclist who was shoved by a police officer in an altercation captured on video, left Manhattan Criminal Court after prosecutors dropped all charges against him. (Photo: John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times)
Prosecutors dropped charges on Friday morning, as expected, against [...]