05 December, 2011

Panoramic Crime Scene

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/11/20/nyregion/nypd-crime-scene-panoramas.html
  
Over the past two years, the NYPD has been taking panoramic images of crime scenes in an attempt to better record the evidence. 

I think it really is an excellent tool as investigators can point and click over evidence from a scene that they might have missed in the hectic hours after the crime since no one, it doesn't matter how skilled at assessing a crime scene or an scene, sees everything there. Yeah right.

Moreover, I believe this gives the police a further opportunity to go back over a crime scene after it has been dismantled.