Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Technology: Question of the day: Edmonton, Alberta Police have released an AI image to assist in identifying a deceased female. Ethical issues?, by Reporter Stephanie Swensrude, noting that: "The National Council of Canadian Muslims criticized the resulting image EPS released as racist because it created a “vague portrait” and a “generic image of a Black male,” a statement at the time read. “It is hard to overstate the absurdity of releasing a hypothetical, racialized portrait of a suspect to the public, while hoping such a tactic might lead to overall vigilance and perhaps an arrest,” the statement said. “In effect, the public is asked to ‘watch out’ for a person of a particular race, with some other physical traits thrown in as ranges (eg. height). It is racial profiling backed up by incomplete science.” EPS (Edmonton Police Service) has since apologized for releasing the 2022 photo."

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: " (Police spokesperson)  Voordenhout said that when police have exhausted traditional investigative methods, a tech...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Tommy Zeigler: Death Row Orlando, Florida: Great post evidence hearing analysis by Leonora LaPeter Anton who zeroes in on the efforts of the scientists who tried to bring certainty to the 50-year-old murder case, noting that: "Confined to a cell for nearly a half-century, Zeigler has become the longest-serving death row inmate in Florida and quite possibly the nation. His case landed back in court this month after Monique Worrell, the elected state attorney for Orange and Osceola counties, agreed to let him extensively test the evidence for blood and touch DNA, something her predecessors declined to do over two decades. The test results arrived from a California lab earlier this year."

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QUOTE  OF THE DAY: "The state decided that Zeigler killed his wife for an insurance payout and lured Mays, a 35-year-old father of four...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Dr. Bazak Sharon: Minnesota: Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abusive Head Trauma; Child abuse practitioners Nancy Sanders Harper; Debra Esernio-Jennsen, and Barbara Knox: Dr. Bazak accuses the University of Minnesota of firing him for uncovering a child abuse prosecution scheme, The Courthouse News (Reporter Ryan Luetkemeyer), reports, noting that, "Dr. Bazak Sharon accuses the university of inflating child abuse diagnoses by encouraging the manipulation of medical evidence that might have proved the innocence of parents and caregivers — all to secure lucrative grants…"Dr. Bazak Sharon accuses the defendants — including the University of Minnesota’s governing board and child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Sanders Harper, among others — of civil rights violations and racketeering. Sharon, who served at the university for 17 years, says the scheme was intended to maximize the identification and prosecution of child abuse cases to secure funding and increase the prestige of the university’s child abuse fellowship program. The policies designed to increase child abuse diagnoses, according to Sharon, include forcing transfers of sick or injured babies to a forensic child abuse pediatrician — even if that pediatrician was not trained to treat the relevant illness — and encouraging the manipulation of medical evidence that might have proved the innocence of parents and caregivers."

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