Gunfire Sensors and Video Cameras Facilitate Policing: The ShotSpotter network, technology that identifies the location of gunshots to within 10 feet, has been in place in several major cities across the country to help police in high crime areas where crime often goes unreported. According to Allison Klein's article for the WA Post, DC will soon connect the ShotSpotter network to video cameras that will adjust to the scene of the gunshots in order to aid in both police investigation and prosecution.

DNA Clears JonBenet's Family: For more than a decade the police, the media, and the public at large have been suspicious that a member of the Ramsey family was guilty of the brutal rape and murder of 6-year-old beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey. The most recent DNA tests in the case have cleared the family members of any wrongdoing. The DA's office has issued an apology, according to Catherine Tsai's report for the Associated Press.