44.493 Issues in Criminal Justice and Technology
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    • 1901 Scotland Yard adopts Sir Edward Henry's fingerprint classification system
      Later ones are generally extensions of Henry's.
    • 1902: One of earliest university departments to teach all aspects of forensic science was set up by Professor R.A. Reiss, who originally gave a course in Forensic Photography at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His forensic photography department grew into Lausanne Institute of Police Science.
    • 1906: Sound recording of railway work opposite a hotel was used as evidence in a trial.
    • 1910: Edmund Locard successfully transferred the landmark work of Hans Gross into practice when he established what is considered the world's first crime laboratory, the Lyons Police Laboratory (LA establishes 1st in US in 1923).
    • 1916: Dr. Albert Schneider of Berkeley, California, used a vacuum cleaner to collect dust from suspect's clothes.
    • 1921: Berkeley, California police officer, John Larson develops the first working polygraph.
    • 1923: In Frye v. United States, the District of Columbia Circuit Court rejected the scientific validity of the lie detector, as not meeting general acceptance by the scientific community. This established a standard guideline for the admissibility of scientific examinations.
    • 1928: Detroit police begin using the one-way radio.
    • 1932 Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory established
    • 1933: Matwejeff (Russia), studied broken windows to determine if from inside or outside.
      -- Jeserich describes how the shape of bloodstains can tell the position of the murderer and how the weapon was used.
    • 1934 Boston begins using two-way radio.
    • 1948: Radar introduced for traffic law enforcement.

      The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) meets for the first time.
    • 1955: New Orleans Police installs an electronic data processing machine, precursor of computer.
    • 1966: National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, a message-switching facility linking all state police computers except Hawaii, comes into being.

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