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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: The Early Days -- 2: The Birth of Ballistics -- 3: You Are What You Eat -- 4: Atomic Evidence -- 5: A Disputed Document -- 6: Bags of Evidence -- 7: Time of Death -- 8: A Valentine's Day Massacre -- 9: Prints and Pixels -- Chronology -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Further Resources -- Index -- About the Author.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: The LAPD Today -- 2: The LAPD and the Early Days of California -- 3: The LAPD and the New Century -- 4: Prohibition and the Great Depression -- 5: The Sleepy Lagoon Murder and the Zoot Suit Riots -- 6: The Black Dahlia Murder -- 7: The Parker Era -- 8: A New Era: 1967-1978 -- 9: The Gates Years: 1978-1992 -- 10: A Challenging Decade: 1992-2002 -- Chronology -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Further Resources -- Index -- About the Author.

The results of a survey of 254 police departments in the United States appear compelling. Whether the criterion be crime containment, successful arrest of wrong-doers, or effective use of public monies, the findings are uniform — to wit, no substantive difference exists in the level of productivity of police departments categorized as to their rate of progress in minority utilization. For all of the plausibility associated with the argument that special procedures for minority recruitment and reten tion will necessarily increase the costs of operation of public agencies, or the belief that any modifica tion of a fully color-blind selection system will compromise the ability of employees to perform their duties, there is virtually no evidence in the data reported here to support these expectations.

UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have become common place in society. Just like the Internet was once a government program that crossed over into the consumer market, UAVs are following a similar path. The technology that was once only available to the military has now entered into the civilian market. UAVs are not model aircraft. They are aircrafts that are controlled by sophisticated GPS (Global Positioning System), with navigation using an advanced flight control system. The GPS system was first development by the defense department in the 1970s to provide a highly accurate navigation system for military use (Hurn, 1989). It is now commonplace in consumer electronics, including personal phones. By incorporating this technology in UAVs, they have become a stable platform that can hover, spin, climb, and descend with easy flight control. Their use in law enforcement and public safety is growing, and having certified training is critical to agencies. Law enforcement should integrate UAVs and have policies to respond to critical incidents as well as prepare for the illegal use of UAVs