Expert: Law enforcement slow to embrace new technology
(WorldNews Mexico)

New technology to help the Santa Fe Police Department better track evidence may be a long time coming, but that’s not surprising, according to an expert at a top criminal justice college. Law enforcement agencies often take a deliberate approach and consider the human element when it comes to integrating swiftly changing technology into processing and maintaining evidence, according to an expert on the subject. “Police departments are very slow to change to some of these new technologies and rightfully so, because some things you need to have a human do because the computer can’t say this evidence needs to be in the refrigerator or not,” said Joe Giacalone, a retired...