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The controversial, high-tech search for more victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy

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From The Verge:

He remembered, for example, one night in 1975 when he encountered Gacy alone at 3AM, near the W. Miami property. At the time, Gacy was casually holding a spade — a shovel for digging, not moving snow — in his hand. Without being prompted, Gacy told him, laughing: “Bill, you know me, not enough hours in the day. You get it done when you can.” Only later did Dorsch think to ask a potentially disturbing question: Get what done?

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Why city-wide surveillance failed to stop the Boston bombing

From The Verge:

“We need to think about the purpose of these cameras,” she said. “If the purpose is to have a camera at an ATM to find people who are stealing, that’s one thing. But putting everyone into a database or recording every moment of every day from more than 500 cameras, the systems become overwhelmed.”

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In Boston bombing, flood of digital evidence is a blessing and a curse

From CNN:

“The message is this: the most prolific source of evidence available to law enforcement comes from video evidence, comes from video sources,” he says. “These kinds of cases really underscore that the general public is collecting video evidence every moment of every day. So when you have a major incident in a major area like this where you have a huge gathering of the public, everyone there with a cell phone now has an evidence collection device that can be used by law enforcement.”

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