Amid ongoing scrutiny of its crime laboratory, the Los Angeles Police Department will deliver weekly reports to a City Council committee on efforts to correct problems in the department’s troubled ...

A Houston Police Department official confirmed Wednesday that a criminal investigation is under way into alleged wrongdoing at HPD's fingerprinting comparison unit, which is under scrutiny following ...

The Latent Fingerprint Unit of D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab regained its accreditation, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday. The entire lab, which includes its fingerprint, forensic biology, forensic ...

LOS ANGELES — Anthony Pacheco, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, on Friday ordered the panel’s civilian watchdog to investigate disclosures that the Police Department’s fingerprint ...

Stunning as it may sound, Oakland's Police Department -- which handles some of the toughest crimes in the Bay Area -- doesn't have anyone who can read or match fingerprints. The fingerprint unit at ...

Rubin and Winton are Times staff writers. Late on the morning of April 14, 2006, a troubling letter rolled off the fax machine in the harried, disordered fingerprint unit of the Los Angeles Police ...

The head of the Los Angeles Police Commission said he asked for a review of policies and procedures at the city Police Department's fingerprint analysis unit after it was revealed that workers there ...