http://defensology.com/2006/01/16/utah-crime-lab-abandons-gsr/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://defensology.com/2006/01/16/utah-crime-lab-abandons-gsr/#comment-1680 Wed, 31 May 2006 01:59:21 +0000 http://defensology.com/2006/01/16/utah-crime-lab-abandons-gsr/#comment-1680 [...] I’ve written previously about the decline of GSR (Gunshot Residue analysis) as a forensic mainstay here and here, as have other commentators. And now the FBI, operators of the biggest forensic lab in the world, have announced that they will no longer perform GSR analysis in their labs. I have no idea why people are expressing shock at this development, it’s been brewing for some time and the conclusion was inevitable. The truth is, it’s a flawed technology that produces too many false positives and exposes one of the bigger problems in the forensic lab community: rampant contamination. [...] […] I’ve written previously about the decline of GSR (Gunshot Residue analysis) as a forensic mainstay here and here, as have other commentators. And now the FBI, operators of the biggest forensic lab in the world, have announced that they will no longer perform GSR analysis in their labs. I have no idea why people are expressing shock at this development, it’s been brewing for some time and the conclusion was inevitable. The truth is, it’s a flawed technology that produces too many false positives and exposes one of the bigger problems in the forensic lab community: rampant contamination. […]

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