NEW YORK (AP) — Until recently, New York City police secretly kept fingerprints of children arrested as juveniles on file permanently in a department database — an illegal practice that has raised ...

Of the 32,431 Met Police officers, 17,458 have their DNA on the force's elimination database, which is 53.8%, while 25,802 ...

The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display ...

Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...

A publicly accessible database exposed the fingerprints and facial recognition information of millions, thrusting biometrics security into the spotlight once again. Researchers discovered the personal ...

The digital infrastructure at the core of U.S. immigration enforcement has quietly become a foreign counterintelligence vulnerability.

Connecticut is now one of the first states in the nation with the ability to check fingerprints lifted at a crime scene against the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Integrated Automated Fingerprint ...

The Metropolitan Police is still missing nearly half of its officers' DNA from its database, and more than a fifth of their ...

Police in Scotland may be failing to fingerprint more than 12,000 a year due to inadequate operational practices and a lack of supervision.