D.C Snipers
Federal Bureau of Investigation
2003 was another busy year for the FBI: from round-the-clock efforts to run down threats and head off terrorist attacks ... to supporting our troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan; from lending a hand in investigations of major terrorists attacks in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Indonesia, Gaza, and elsewhere ... to the lengthy, multi-agency investigation and ultimate trial and conviction of the D.C. area snipers. ... [Read More]
USPS Office of Inspector General
The Office of Inspector General also provided two special agents to assist law enforcement during the search for the snipers who stalked and murdered citizens in the Washington D.C., area. ... [Read More]
NIJ's MAPS: GIS as a Tool for Forensic Science
The snipers, fortunately, were caught before the analysis could be conducted. Unfortunately, the length of time that it took to gather, format and integrate the data kept us from getting started with analysis immediately. There were many difficulties and issues in getting required data together and integrating it to provide the context described above; something a regional spatial data repository could alleviate. However, plans were formulated to do an analysis that included an analysis of commercial and demographic data, distance and surface analysis, route analysis, measurement of the porosity of ingress and egress points of a scene and a 3-D rendering of each scene using spot elevations and building heights. GIS, regardless of the scale and need, provides a scalable context for which to catalog, view, link and analyze elements in and among crime scenes from a spatial perspective. Thus, GIS provides an investigation an advantageous point-of-view that fulfills micro and macro needs a ... [Read More]
Earthquake Technology Fights Crime
In 1995, responding to citizens' petitions, Redwood City (near Menlo Park)began field testing the gunshot-locating system developed by Showen'scompany. By the spring of 1996, the system was undergoing final acceptancetrials. Captain Jim Granucci of the Redwood City Police Department statedthat "even before the system was in use, the number of illegal gunshotsdeclined as word of its existence spread." Other cities across the nation,including Washington D.C., are now considering the use of similar systems.Such systems may also be useful for combating snipers during overseaspeace-keeping operations, helping to protect the lives of Americans inuniform. ... [Read More]
Special Investigations
At the request of Reps. Blagojevich and Waxman, the Special Investigations Division in conjunction with the Office of Special Investigations of GAO worked to reveal how the Department of Defense indirectly armed citizens with some of the most powerful and destructive ammunition available. Armor piercing ammunition for fifty caliber weapons can pierce armored vehicles and bulletproof glass when fired at a distance of over a mile. Until Congress acted in response to the investigation, military surplus fifty caliber armor piercing ammunition was readily available in the U.S. civilian market as a result of a little-known Department of Defense demilitarization program. As part of the investigation into fifty caliber sniper rifles, expert Marine snipers provided a demonstration of the power and accuracy of these weapons. The demonstration was recorded on video tape. Also as part of the investigation, undercover investigators from the Office of Special Investigations of GAO taped conversation ... [Read More]
USAID: Statement from the Family of Laurence Foley
“Maybe things were getting so grim in heaven, with all the new arrivals from September 11th, the snipers’ victims and the Moscow victims, they needed someone to cheer them up,” said Judy Nolan, the wife of Stephen J. Nolan U.S. Consul General, Cape Town, South Africa. “They looked down and said who could do this job best.” ... [Read More]
TALKING IT OVER
By building playgrounds, we invest in our children and the safety of the communities on which our businesses depend. Sadly, millions of the world's children don't have safe places to play. Instead they play in the streets or other dangerous places, often littered with garbage, broken glass, abandoned cars, even discarded drug paraphernalia. In some parts of the world, the dangers include bombs, snipers and even landmines. ... [Read More]
September 1, 1998
By building playgrounds, we invest in our children and the safety of the communities on which our businesses depend. Sadly, millions of the world's children don't have safe places to play. Instead they play in the streets or other dangerous places, often littered with garbage, broken glass, abandoned cars, even discarded drug paraphernalia. In some parts of the world, the dangers include bombs, snipers and even landmines. ... [Read More]
COPS Office: Homeland Security
This session will be a review of lessons learned during amulti-jurisdictional and high-profile serial murder investigation. Thepanelists will relate their perspectives on how different law enforcementagencies were able to coordinate their resources and efforts to investigate andcapture the Washington area snipers. Of particular interest to conferenceattendees will be the issues of jurisdiction, command, community fear,information coordination and sharing, media management, resource allocation andsharing, and internal cooperation among the federal, state, and local lawenforcement executives. The issues will be presented in short summaries andaddressed in greater depth through questions and answers involving allparticipants and the audience. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
You know, since leaving Texas to join the President's Administration in 2001, my family has had an interesting time living in the Washington, DC, area. Not long after my family joined me we had a flooding downpour, 4 inches in an hour and the house flooded and went on flooding on a regular basis. We just had a sump pump installed and a real source of amusement for us is to go down in the basement during a hard rain and feel the dry carpet. It's a glamorous life alright. Karen and the boys had been in DC less than six weeks when the 9-11 disasters struck New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon. It was a harrowing time. In the fall of 2002 our whole area was terrorized for weeks by the DC area snipers. Soccer and cub scouts were cancelled and buying gas or groceries became a death-defying feat. The winter of 2003 brought a record blizzard that shut the city down for a week, followed that spring by a hurricane that had us living in the dark and cooking on the grill for several days. And ... [Read More]
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