Not your ordinary brutal murder — Kitty Genovese was murdered on March 13th, 1964 in New York City just outside her apartment building. There was something different about her killing. There are the facts, which got muddied, but the story about her brutal death and...

Big Data yesterday and today — According to Wikipedia, "big data" is an amalgam of data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data-processing application software is inadequate to deal with them. Well, I have important news. The FBI and its Criminal...

The police can't do it without you — The police need your help and are still waiting. "Operation Identification was established to reduce theft and increase the recoverability of stolen property," according to a report sent to the Unites States Department of Justice...

A commitment to our neighborhoods — Because of our ability to map the location of homes and businesses, we are proposing that for every pocket of 20 customers who purchase our security kit, a sign will be provided to the public works department to be erected in a...

A picture “ain’t worth squat” — A picture will never lead to a conviction. It might be worth a thousand words in journalism, but a picture "ain't worth squat" to law enforcement professionals. Ask any defense attorney if they can get a person off if the...

Intelligence gathering at the FBI — The largest division at the FBI is the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS). In essence, it's the FBI's intelligence arm. It is the umbrella over a number of intelligence services including the National Crime Information...

What the National Property Management Association Is saying — The National Property Management Association (NPMA)  states, "Throughout the month of March, Asset Management Awareness Month urges businesses and organizations to learn how improved asset and property...

Go ahead, turn that university monitor around — Large universities in the United States are vast institutions with thousands and thousands of individual assets. Turn a computer monitor around in a university computer lab and you'll see an asset tag with a number and...

Enterprise Asset Management catches on — Operation Identification, even at the urging of law enforcement professionals, has never caught on among the public since it's inception in 1963. But every global corporation and large manufacturer, every state and municipal...

The value of a high-end purse — Without the serial number intact, the value of a high-end purse drops dramatically. Cut the serial number off and there is no resale value. Why thieves don't rip off large institutions Thieves know that it's the serial numbers that lead...