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An Incomplete DNA Deal

Published: March 26, 2012

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A major expansion of New York State’s DNA database signed into law last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo will enhance the ability of law enforcement to convict the guilty and, in some cases, exonerate the innocent. But, disappointingly, the measure still leaves New York State without certain protections to avoid wrongful convictions.

Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics - NYTimes.com

Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics - NYTimes.com

Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics

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By HENRY FOUNTAIN

Published: May 11, 2009

It was time, the panel of experts said, to put more science in forensic science.

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A report in February by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences found “serious problems” with much of the work performed by crime laboratories in the United States. Recent incidents of faulty evidence analysis — including the case of an Oregon lawyer who was arrested by the F.B.I. after the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings based on fingerprint identification that turned out to be wrong — were just high-profile examples of wider deficiencies, the committee said. Crime labs were overworked, there were few certification programs for investigators and technicians, and the entire field suffered from a lack of oversight.

F.B.I. Lab Houses Growing Database of DNA Profiles - NYTimes.com

F.B.I. Lab Houses Growing Database of DNA Profiles - NYTimes.com

In a Lab, an Ever-Growing Database of DNA Profiles

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SLEUTHING The F.B.I. crime lab extracts genetic information from thousands of pieces of evidence each year and adds the findings to a database.

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By SOLOMON MOORE

Published: May 11, 2009

QUANTICO, Va. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation established its first crime laboratory in 1932 in a converted lounge in Washington. The one-man operation included a sink, a microscope and its most exotic piece of equipment: a helixometer, a lighted magnifier probe to inspect gun-barrel scoring.

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Anders Breivik's chilling anti-feminism | Jane Clare Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Breivik's introduction is entirely given over to a half-baked history of political correctness, "no aspect" of which, he tells us, is "more prominent … than feminist ideology". The PC-project is bent on "transforming a patriarchy into a matriarchy" and "intends to deny the intrinsic worth of native Christian European heterosexual males". But more than that, it has succeeded. The "feminisation of European culture" has been underway since the 1830s, and by now, men have been reduced to an "emasculate[d] … touchy-feely subspecies".
The antipathy to feminism – and women – threaded throughout Breivik's document is more than just incidental. The text is peppered with references to the pernicious effects of the "Sex and the City lifestyle, the propagation of sexual immorality (indexed by women's promiscuity), and the "erotic capital" women use to manipulate men. The degeneration of our civilisation is intimately linked to an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease and "emotionalism". Indeed, the danger of women's "unnatural" demand for equality is such that Breivik closes his introduction by claiming that "the fate of European civilisation depends on European men steadfastly resisting Politically Correct feminism".

This sci-fi fantasy of finally abolishing men's dependence on women's generative abilities is revealing. On the one hand, Breivik indicts feminism with causing our alleged "cultural suicide", both by encouraging reproductive treachery and also because women are apparently more supportive of multiculturalism. However, in another sense, Breivik's thought betrays an analogy between his monocultural nationalism and his veneration of a certain type of "warrior" masculinity, an analogy that revolves – as his manifesto's title implies – around the ideal of masculine independence. The "feminisation" of the European male corresponds to the "feminisation" of Europe itself. Our cultural purity is threatened by invasion from outside. Once proud, virile, and impregnable, Europe has been turned – Breivik suggests in Section 2.89 – into a woman, one who has submitted to rape rather than "risk serious injuries while resisting".
Unlike Breivik, we must resist the urge to make easy causal connections. No account of this man's background or beliefs about nationality, religion or gender can serve to explain his actions. His cool enumeration of technicalities about downloading the document, his careful inclusion of a press-pack of photos, the chilling reference to the sacrifices involved in its "marketing operation" – all this serves to exhibit an inhumanity which opens a chasm between ideas and action. Nevertheless, while the behaviour of Breivik must, and can, only be understood as insanity, we would do our understanding a disservice by accepting it as only that.

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To Anders Breivik, the 'feminisation' of the European male corresponds to the 'feminisation' of Europe itself

Anders Breivik Manifesto: Shooter/Bomber Downplayed Religion, Secular Influence Key - International Business Times

July 25, 2011 12:37 AM EDT

Anders Behring Breivik placed himself potentially outside of religious Christianity in a 1,500 page manifesto he has reportedly admitted to writing.
"A majority of so called agnostics and atheists in Europe are cultural conservative Christians without even knowing it," he wrote.

"Several thousand pages of rambling paranoia" | Anders Behring Breivik trial: Six days in the company of a mass murderer - Telegraph

"Several thousand pages of rambling paranoia"

Anders Behring Breivik trial: Six days in the company of a mass murderer - Telegraph

As Anders Breivik tried to justify his killing of more than 70 people to an Oslo court, David Blair was sitting a few rows behind him. It was a chilling experience.

As he spoke, a handful of survivors stood up and left the court. A few others wept - Anders Behring Breivik trial: Six days in the company of a mass murderer

Anders Behring Breivik in court: As he spoke, a handful of survivors stood up and left the court. A few others wept Photo: AFP/GETTY

Later, Ms Engh’s iron self-control lapsed, for a moment, into exasperation. The killer would constantly refer to what he grandly called his “compendium” – several thousand pages of rambling paranoia, most of it cut and pasted from the internet, serving as the ideological basis for his actions. Once, he called it a “draft”, and remarked that he was still deciding if he believed in all it contained.

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33 year old Anders Behring Breivik appeared before court today for fifth time in case of killing 77 innocent Norwegian people. He did not give Knight Templar clinched fist salute today. He started wit.

Norway: Anders Breivik Studied Al Qaeda

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Anders Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people last year, said that before carrying out his bombing-and-shooting rampage, he studied attacks by Al Qaeda and other terrorists.

Breivik Says He Wishes Norway Death Toll Had Been Higher

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Anders Behring Breivik told prosecutors in court that his massacre last summer was justified, and that he had planned to behead a former prime minister.

Prosecutors Press Anders Behring Breivik on Extremist Affiliations

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Anders Behring Breivik was questioned about trips to Liberia and London during which he said he met a Serbian war criminal and founded his anti-Islamic militant group.

British Ultranationalist Warns of Shariah's 'Creeping' Influence, and Twitter Laughs

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A Twitter thread was soon filled with mockery of its premise of a stealth campaign by Muslims to replace Western values with a version of Islamic law.

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The anti-Muslim extremist is using the courtroom as a soapbox, but he might actually be discrediting his cause and making a case for trying terrorists in civilian court.

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Madness, badness, sadness
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First, one of the prosecutors of the Norwegian court read out the names and details of each of the 77 victims killed by Anders Behring Breivik on July 22, 2011. "She was at the water's edge... Shot dead." "He was in the Big Hall of the cafe. Shot dead.
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I am not a psychiatric case,Breivik tells court
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Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is on trial for killing 77 people last July, has insisted to an Oslo court that he is sane. "I am not a psychiatric case," Breivik told the court when questioned by a lawyer for the plaintiffs ...

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Book Review - 'The Poisoner’s Handbook - Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York,' by Deborah Blum - Review - NYTimes.com

Book Review - 'The Poisoner’s Handbook - Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York,' by Deborah Blum - Review - NYTimes.com

Murder by the Drop

By ELYSSA EAST

Published: February 25, 2010

At the beginning of Deborah Blum’s “Poisoner’s Handbook,” a murderer named Frederic Mors gets off virtually scot-free after confessing to multiple killings by poison, then disappears without a trace. Though Blum leaves the reader with the impression that Mors — whose adopted surname means “death” in Latin — will return, she never comes back to his story. But death moves throughout her latest book via myriad poisons administered by impatient heirs, unhappy spouses and psychopaths — or innocently ingested, because the science of forensic toxicology has not yet caught up with these deadly chemicals.