https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/0 ... to-expose/Netflix Series on the Octopus Murders Continues Cover-up of Reporter’s Death and CIA Crimes He Threatened to Expose
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - March 11, 2024
https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/ ... udget.htmlBiden budget proposal includes $3.5B up front for new FBI headquarters
By Tristan Navera – Staff Reporter, Washington Business Journal
Mar 11, 2024
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... 8/fbi-kkk/FBI leadership claimed Bureau was “almost powerless” against KKK, despite making up one-fifth of its membership
Deputy Director James Adams testified that the Bureau had three times as many “ghetto informants” as they did those targeting white supremacists
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In testimony before the Church Committee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Deputy Director acknowledged that the Bureau at one point made up as much as one-fifth of the Klu Klux Klan’s total membership - but were still powerless to curtail the KKK’s violence. His testimony also acknowledged police participation in said violence, and that the Bureau had three times as many “ghetto informants” as they did those targeting white supremacist domestic terrorists.
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https://twitter.com/FBI/status/17672041 ... wgr%5EtweeThis #WomensHistoryMonth
we recognize the trailblazers within our ranks like Jacqui T., Section Chief of the Laboratory Division’s Forensic Science Support Section. She and other leaders at the #FBI oversee specialists that enhance operations to protect the American people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... convictionThirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI's 'mass disaster' of false conviction
This article is more than 8 years old
A ‘dirty bomb’ of pseudo-science wrapped up nearly 268 cases – perhaps hundreds more. Now begins the ‘herculean effort to right the wrongs’
Ed Pilkington in New York Tue 21 Apr 2015
https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/f ... apter4.htmThe FBI DNA Laboratory: A Review of Protocol and Practice Vulnerabilities
May 2004
Office of the Inspector General
Chapter Four
FBI scientist Jacqueline Blake's Misconduct
I. BLAKE'S CAREER WITH THE FBI
Jacqueline Blake was employed by the FBI in the DNAUI and its predecessor unit from August 8, 1988, until her resignation from the FBI on June 7, 2002. Blake has a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Biology from Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. She entered duty with the FBI as a Biological Laboratory Technician at the GS-5 grade level and was assigned to the Serology Unit of the Laboratory's Scientific Analysis Section. Her job responsibilities as a Serologist included inventorying and storing evidence and conducting routine evidence examinations to identify the presence of body fluids. Although her early performance appraisals noted that her training comprehension was slower than expected, she received fully successful evaluations or above from her initial appointment until 1994, and she reached the GS-10 grade level in 1991.
The first indications of problems with Blake occurred in 1991. In that year, Blake received an oral reprimand from the DNAUI Unit Chief for abusing her sick and annual leave accounts. She was advised in July 1991 that her leave balances were in deficit and that she could not take additional leave for the rest of the year. Blake nonetheless submitted a leave slip and failed to report to work for one day in November 1991 during an absence of the Unit Chief, even though she was aware that she had no accrued leave. She also took leave for a day in December 1991 without
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/20 ... ce-system/Widespread Failures at Crime Labs Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System
Loaded on DEC. 7, 2016 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News December, 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... s3.ukcrimeForensic lab errors in hundreds of crime cases
Sandra Laville, crime correspondent
Thu 22 Feb 2007
Hundreds of killers and rapists may have escaped justice because of blunders by the government-owned forensic science laboratory that were uncovered by senior police officers reviewing the unsolved murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common.
Over a five-year period, the Forensic Science Service (FSS) failed to detect tiny samples of DNA in 2,500 cases involving murders, rapes and serious assaults. Senior officers believe
https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/12/14/ ... uct-probe/New York Daily News
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Dec 14, 2023 — NYC Medical Examiner crime analysts suspended from casework in misconduct probe (EXCLUSIVE) ... lab technician had mishandled evidence in more ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ie/390897/CSI Is a Lie
America's forensic-investigation system is overdue for sweeping reform.
By Conor Friedersdor APRIL 20, 2015
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes ... &st=SearchTainting Evidence
Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab
By JOHN F. KELLY and PHILLIP K. WEARNE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... il-bowser/Ignoring deep-seated problems at D.C.’s crime lab will cost lives and taxpayers
By Brandon Garrett and Julia Leighton
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ma ... -rcna48940Epic Massachusetts crime lab scandal may involve even broader wrongdoing, judge says
State authorities said for years that one rogue chemist was behind the compromised drug tests that led to tens of thousands of overturned cases. But a judge says there may be more.
Sept. 22, 2022 By Maggie Mulvihill and Jon Schuppe
A decade-old scandal at a Massachusetts crime lab — which led authorities to dismiss tens of thousands of drug convictions — may involve wrongdoing by more people than was previously known, according to a recent court order.
A state Superior Court judge said in a ruling related to the release of a trove of state investigative materials that there is evidence that other employees at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute — beyond disgraced former chemist Annie Dookhan — may have engaged in misconduct. At least one person
RACHAEL PELLSSECURITY29.06.2020
Behind the scenes at the FBI’s gruesome forensics laboratory
The FBI is renowned for pioneering forensic techniques. Photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg captures the scenes behind the science
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https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/11/inv ... -employee/Investigation: ‘Gold Standard’ Of Evidence Turned To Pyrite By Colorado Crime Lab Employee
Failures
from the looks-like-law-enforcement-can't-be-trusted-to-handle-evidence dept
Mon, Mar 11th 2024 03:38pm - Tim Cushing
Law enforcement investigators and prosecutors have overwhelmingly embraced plenty of pseudoscience over the years, treating everything from bite marks to hair samples as conclusive evidence capable of singling out guilty parties.
Most claims were specious, backed only by “expert” statements from law enforcement crime lab employees solely interested in confirming prevailing law enforcement theories. And that’s when things are on the up and up. In multiple cases, forensic scientists and other crime lab employees have faked tests and falsified evidence to cover up everything from laziness to their own illegal drub habits.
DNA has long been considered the evidence no one can question. But it’s far from fallible. DNA indicates little more than something exists where other people exists. DNA is prone to cross-contamination — something that led law enforcement on a years-long pursuit of a nonexistent serial killer before investigators realized the DNA found at multiple crime scenes was actually that of the person packing the swabs investigators used when examining crime scenes.
Multiple factors make DNA far less reliable than it’s portrayed in popular media. DNA can be taken from one scene and deposited at another. Exclusion-focused tests can result in false positives simply by deciding the most common DNA at the site is an indicator of guilt. The lack of rigorous, consistent standards across all law enforcement agencies means a lot of so-called “evidence” derived from DNA at crime scenes is mostly the result of a forensic examiner’s interpretation of the data, rather than an empirical conclusion based on standardized best practices.
Then there’s things like this, where whatever value DNA evidence might have had was destroyed by lab misconduct, as Emma Tucker and Andi Babineau report for CNN.
A now-former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation
https://www.muckrock.comThe Foilies 2024: Recognizing the worst in government transparency
by Dave Maass, Kelly Kauffman, Dillon Bergin, Beryl Lipton, Aaron Mackey and Tom Nash March 10, 2024
We’re taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to leave out the role that civilians play in holding officials accountable. We’re not just talking about the ballot box, but the everyday power we all have to demand government agencies make their records and data available to public scrutiny.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/exc ... top-story/Exclusive: Jim Jordan Threatens to Hold FBI Director in Contempt over Hunter Biden Laptop Story
By JAMES LYNCH March 12,2024
https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/f ... 24-048.pdfMarch 5, 2024
Supervisory FBI agent allowed to retire and collect pension after committing a crime.
Findings of Misconduct by a then FBI Special Agent in Charge for Ethical Violations Pertaining to Financial Conflict of Interest and Use of Public Office for Private Gain
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation after receiving information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Inspection Division, alleging that a then FBI Special Agent in
Charge (SAC) had assigned the SAC’s spouse, who worked within the SAC’s chain of command, to serve on a committee and then arranged for the committee members, including the spouse, to receive cash awards in recognition of such service. The OIG investigation substantiated the allegation that the SAC had an imputed financial interest in the spouse’s receipt
of the cash award, and that the SAC violated federal ethics regulations and related FBI policies when the SAC—without seeking prior authorization to participate in the matter—orchestrated the spouse’s receipt of the award by directing a
subordinate to complete the paperwork necessary for the spouse to receive the award. The SAC retired from the FBI prior to being contacted by the OIG for an interview. When later contacted by the OIG for a voluntary interview, the SAC declined to be interviewed. The OIG has the authority to compel testimony from
current DOJ employees upon informing them that their statements will not be used to incriminate them in a criminal proceeding. The OIG does not have the authority to compel or subpoena testimony from former DOJ employees,
including those who retire or resign during an OIG investigation.
Criminal prosecution of the SAC was declined. The OIG has completed
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/re ... r-BB1jIe6QMilwaukee cop allowed to retire, fined $5K in jail inmate's death, avoids probation, jail time
Story by Chris Ramirez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 3/11/24
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ex ... r-BB1jIvtzEast Cleveland top cop ‘stole from his officers to support a lavish lifestyle’ that included Caribbean vacation, prosecutor says
Story by Cory Shaffer March 11,2024
And as investigators dug further, bank records showed that Gardner took money that should have gone to his East Cleveland officers and instead used it to pay off his American Express bills. He used the credit card for business expenses, as well as for a Caribbean vacation, a monthly wine subscription and expensive dinners, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Samantha Sohl said in court Monday.
“He stole from his officers to support a lavish lifestyle and to pay his business expenses,” Sohl said. “Even though he pocketed $203,000.00
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fo ... r-BB1jJ2okCop sentenced for drug trafficking
Story by WNEP Web Staff 3/11/2024
Hanover Township Police Officer Kevin Davis, 28, was sentenced last Thursday after investigators say his apartment was used to move fentanyl, crystal meth, and other drugs.
https://news.yahoo.com/former-shawnee-c ... 00221.htmlNo jail time for Shawnee school resource cop pleads to obstructing justice,in exchange for charges dropped for possession of material that shows a minor in a state of nudity and participating or engaging in sexual activity. He resigned from the Shawnee Township Police Department after the indictments were announced.
J Swygart, The Lima News, Ohio
Mon, March 11, 2024
https://triblive.com/local/valley-news- ... -confirms/Manor cop facing criminal charges was fired last month, borough mayor confirms
JUSTIN VELLUCCI | Monday, March 11, 2024
A female UPMC employee, who police identified as Hall’s ex-girlfriend, reported to UPMC police that 14 credit cards and a key marked “157” were missing from her office.police charged Hall in January with felony counts of burglary and criminal trespass, as well as theft by unlawful taking, impersonating a public servant and harassment.Hall was making more than $65,000 in base salary in Manor, with overtime bringing his pay to about $90,000, Malinoski said.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge ... b32e9.htmlGroups push for action on BPRD cop accused of strip searching 11-year-old boy at BRAVE Cave
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https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/cr ... rylink=cpyhttps://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/03/09 ... p-scandal/California enacts police transparency law inspired by San Jose cop scandal
East Bay Times
State Sen. Aisha Wahab authored the bill that clears the way for law-enforcement agencies to proactively detail why
https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/03/11 ... lary-call/‘Bring Your A** Over Here’: Maryland Cop Shoots Black Man Inside His Own Apartment While Responding to Burglary Call
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