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By John Reid & Associates
Earlier this year the nation was transfixed by the trial of Casey Anthony, a young woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee. During the course of the investigation Casey was interviewed on several occasions and she told many confirmed lies. The recorded interviews showed an apparently distraught but credible woman who revealed no specific cues of deception while fabricating explanations to account for her missing daughter. She explained away incriminating circumstantial evidence and blatantly lied to specific questions concerning her daughter's disappearance with ease and confidence. Casey was described by experts as being "comfortable" lying. While her detached affect, inappropriate attitudes and uncorroborated explanations accounting for Caylee's disappearance certainly raised suspicions, she exhibited minimal nonverbal or paralinguistic symptoms of anxiety, fear, guilt or decreased confidence normally observed when a person tells a significant lie. In detection of deception jargon, Casey would be described as a "good" liar.
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Great Tool for Investigators
Law enforcement agencies find social media networks to be an effective tool in catching criminals, especially organized gangs.
Gang members have been captured after posting photographs of themselves on Facebook or Twitter displaying tattoos and inscribed gang necklaces. Some of the suspects pose on Facebook with stolen money or guns, or show videos of themselves on YouTube with cars that have been identified as evidence in a crime, officials said. "They want to brag," said Greg Antonsen, deputy inspector for the New York Police Department. "Never underestimate their desire to show off. It works against them."
Federal, state and local agencies are using as investigative evidence some photographs, tweets, social linkages and social events posted publicly on the Web to identify and track suspected criminals. In one case, a man wanted for felony theft was captured after posting on Twitter that he would be hosting his own birthday party at a specific venue and listing a specific date and time. "We had two detectives grab him up when he got out of the limo. He never got to celebrate his birthday," Antonsen said..
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Interesting perceptive from someone who treats officers.
by Lisa Wimberger Considering that Occupy Wall Street has put our nation's law enforcement ethics on center stage, it seems more relevant now than ever, to address this topic. I am not an officer, but because I consult for many agencies as a stress-management practitioner, I do have the benefit of a unique perspective to offer you. I am not interested in consensus on whether cops are good or bad. Admittedly, it's a loaded question. Those in the profession will defend its honor, and those on the civilian side of its sometimes-misguided force, might say that cops are bad. I'm interested in giving you an insider's glimpse into some of the insidious nuances of the profession so that you, too, will never again look at this topic as having a black-and-white answer.. article continues > |
Fourth Amendment Protection Applies to Placing GPS on Vehicle
U.S. Supreme Court: U.S. v. Jones January 2012
by Jack Ryan, Attorney
Reprinted from WWW.PATC.COM
On January 23, 2012 the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that law enforcement's act of attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and tracking the vehicle by use of the device constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. [i] It is noted that the prosecution had failed in the lower courts to argue that placement of the device on a vehicle was a reasonable search thus that argument was waived. The Court outlined the facts in Jones as follows:
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