DNA-matching to solve crimes an imperfect science DNA-matching may work to catch killers on TV crime shows like CSI but in reality, it’s an imperfect science we shouldn’t have blind faith in, says Andrew Rule.
Crime by Andrew Rule
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Subscriber only Catching crooks and killers became a lot easier when DNA-matching hit the courts. It was the greatest investigation breakthrough since law enforcement took up fingerprinting in the 1890s. It took about a decade before fingerprint evidence was used to decide a criminal trial but after that it rapidly became an investigation tool routinely used by police worldwide. Fingerprint techniques have, of course, been refined ever since.
New prisons or looser bail laws? Laborâs unpalatable choice
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The Victorian government faces a politically unpalatable choice between spending billions of dollars to build and manage new prisons or winding back a decade of popular âtough on crimeâ bail and sentencing laws in an effort to avoid an explosion in prisoner numbers.
Confidential high-level government documents from late 2019 and early 2020 seen by
The Age forecast that under existing policies the prison system would be over-capacity by 2024 despite record spending on prison infrastructure in the 2019 budget.
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