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Fighting Crime With Science

As a teenager, Dr. Susan Walsh loved the ...

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford

What is money? Everyone needs and wants it, but few can actually define it. ...

DNA evidence has long been hailed as the gold standard of forensic science—unassailable, precise, and definitive. But what happens when that gold standard is processed through proprietary algorithms that operate in secrecy, shielded from scrutiny by trade secrets and alleged technical complexity?

Probabilistic genotyping (“PG”) software promises to unravel ...

The “100-­mile border zone” is not just a geographic area—it is a legal construct that provides federal authorities broader powers to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. If you are within 100 miles of the nation’s land borders or coastlines, you are in the 100-­mile border zone, a region where ...

This column was originally published on May 29, 2025, on Rutherford.org. It has been reprinted with permission

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to ...

The ever-­growing army of self-­driving vehicles quietly traveling through our cities are becoming something far more than just driverless vehicles—they’re morphing into the most sophisticated mobile surveillance network law enforcement has ever had. Police departments across America are increasingly tapping into the 360-­degree, always-­recording cameras of autonomous vehicles to investigate ...

Arkansas: The downward spiral of former Hot Spring County Sheriff Derek “Scott” Finkbeiner, 47, continued with his fourth arrest on May 2, 2025, reported KATV out of Little Rock. The arrest stemmed from Finkbeiner’s attempt to contact a witness, co-­defendant Jordan Hammond, through the Signal app, violating a court order ...