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Authentegrity is a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), which was created as a way to distribute information and provide some software tools for digital photographers working in the legal and law enforcement fields. The software we recommend does what it's supposed to, and is designed to solve problems without becoming a problem. Authentegrity for Downloader Pro is a unique plug-in we wrote for Breeze Systems' Downloader Pro and is freeware for those working in law enforcement (please read the license agreement).
Authentegrity is primarily a developer of validation software for the legal community, but we also have the expertise to provide expert review and testimony for cases involving digital photography, image processing, crime scene forensics and fingerprint identificaiton.
Authentegrity is primarily a developer of validation software for the legal community, but we also have the expertise to provide expert review and testimony for cases involving digital photography, image processing, crime scene forensics and fingerprint identificaiton.
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Civil War Battlefields
By Erik Berg
May 17, 2008
It's amazing how much one can take for granted or overlook when a routine develops. Law enforcement generally misses more evidence than it finds. This isn't so much a slam on the enforcement arm of government, but an observation of human nature. Assumption and routine kill curiosity and creativity. Fingerprints are found where you look, but will never be found where you don't look. Assumption and routine determines where you look.
I took more than 4000 images while I was in Iraq and most have been described as beautiful. Few would look at them and say "that's war." Beauty is where you look for it, and so it is with evidence at a crime scene. It doesn't matter if that crime scene is on a battlefield and you only have two hours to find it, or in a city and you have two days to find it. If you aren't looking for it, you won't find it. Entering a crime scene with a "theory", or some other preconceived notion about what happened, is not investigating. It's confirming the theory.
There are many lessons to be learned in Iraq, and there are many more lessons to be learned inside a modern crime scene.
I wonder how many Americans who live within the boundaries of the Civil War have ever stopped to see a Civil War Battlefield or learn the whys behind the events of 1861 to 1865. I must admit that I was one of those people who read history, but never really sought out the places where it occurred.
This past weekend I visited three battlefields in Virginia. Chancellorsville is probably the most well known of the three, but I also went to a place known as the Battle of Cedar Mountain, near a town called Gordonsville, and a Cavalry Engagement at Jack's Shop, near the village of Rochelle.
The most effective investigator, be it a police detective, forensic specialist or a soldier collecting intelligence on a battlefield, is someone with an open mind who thinks outside the box.
I've restarted the blog and hope to expand it beyond documenting my wayward travels around Virginia or my recent road trip to Ohio and Kentucky.
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By Erik Berg
May 17, 2008
It's amazing how much one can take for granted or overlook when a routine develops. Law enforcement generally misses more evidence than it finds. This isn't so much a slam on the enforcement arm of government, but an observation of human nature. Assumption and routine kill curiosity and creativity. Fingerprints are found where you look, but will never be found where you don't look. Assumption and routine determines where you look.
I took more than 4000 images while I was in Iraq and most have been described as beautiful. Few would look at them and say "that's war." Beauty is where you look for it, and so it is with evidence at a crime scene. It doesn't matter if that crime scene is on a battlefield and you only have two hours to find it, or in a city and you have two days to find it. If you aren't looking for it, you won't find it. Entering a crime scene with a "theory", or some other preconceived notion about what happened, is not investigating. It's confirming the theory.
There are many lessons to be learned in Iraq, and there are many more lessons to be learned inside a modern crime scene.
I wonder how many Americans who live within the boundaries of the Civil War have ever stopped to see a Civil War Battlefield or learn the whys behind the events of 1861 to 1865. I must admit that I was one of those people who read history, but never really sought out the places where it occurred.
This past weekend I visited three battlefields in Virginia. Chancellorsville is probably the most well known of the three, but I also went to a place known as the Battle of Cedar Mountain, near a town called Gordonsville, and a Cavalry Engagement at Jack's Shop, near the village of Rochelle.
The most effective investigator, be it a police detective, forensic specialist or a soldier collecting intelligence on a battlefield, is someone with an open mind who thinks outside the box.
I've restarted the blog and hope to expand it beyond documenting my wayward travels around Virginia or my recent road trip to Ohio and Kentucky.
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This was one of the funniest concerts I've ever been to and calling it a Blues Concert doesn't really do it justice, but Bobby Rush is a blues singer. He also has a well honed sense of humor. Some might call it sexually explicit and even raunchy, but it did make you forget where you were for 60 minuts or so. Bobby Rush is 72 years old.
Camp Liberty, Baghdad. April 6, 2008
Camp Liberty, Baghdad. April 6, 2008
Blues Concert in Iraq
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