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FBI to Review More than 2,000 Cases That Involved Hair Sample Evidence

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hair samples are one popular way to obtain DNA evidence. But the FBI plans to examine more than 2,000 cases in which hair samples led to a conviction, McClatchy Newspapers reports. The FBI plans to examine more than 2,000 cases from 1985 to 2000. Some of those cases include people awaiting execution…

FBI Begins to Install $1 Billion Face Recognition System

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is preparing its newest weapon against crime – a $1 billion national facial recognition system. The Next Generation Identification program, which is expected to be rolled out nationwide by 2014, matches surveillance images of known criminals, reports CNET. The system is designed to compare a photo to the FBI’s database of…