As police continue to investigate a possible serial killer in Stockton, California, a former FBI agent recently told Newsweek that technological advances in the world of law enforcement could help the government locate a possible suspect.
Thomas O’Connor, who retired from the FBI in 2019 and is lately a senior representative of the Soufan Group, explained to Newsweek that when he began his police career in 1983, officials didn’t have the same generation “device” they had. Do now.
“There was no DNA, no complex hair or fiber, and even fingerprint evidence has come a long way. The ability to retrieve fingerprints on things where at the time you wouldn’t even bother to look there,” O’Connor said. Newsweek. ” Now there is a generation for laser scanning and all kinds of 360 laser scanners that will document the crime scene down to the last detail, to make things look much clearer. “
“Today, law enforcement has taken a big step forward from what they did 20 or 30 years ago in that generation has come so far,” O’Connor added.
On Tuesday, the Stockton Police Department released a video of the “person of interest” that relates to a series of seven shootings, six of which were fatal. The seven shootings date back to April 2021 and police carried them out through a single person.
While police have yet to release a lot of data on evidence already accumulated at crime scenes, Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said Tuesday that officials were in the “very slow” procedure of reviewing forensic and ballistic evidence from each of the other crime scenes.
O’Connor also explained that advances in DNA generation and other facets of law enforcement have given officials “many, many more features to locate the right user and also, just as importantly, eliminate the user who comes forward and says, ‘Me. ‘I’m the shooter. ‘”
“It’s vital that the right user is prosecuted for those cases and advances in forensic recovery and remedy have made it incredibly accurate and it’s just to gain advantages from law enforcement,” O’Connor said.
Despite technological advances in recent years, O’Connor said he wouldn’t say “it’s easy” for law enforcement to a suspected criminal.
“Criminals in general do things to avoid detection, so they’re looking for tactics to avoid getting caught,” O’Connor said. higher today than they were, even 10 years ago. “
“It’s easy,” O’Connor added.
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