ACS president Bassam Shakhashiri, a chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been a strong supporter of the Innocence Project, and he appeared with many of the speakers for the Innocence Project at a press conference on Monday. He told Nature that before the society could lobby Congress in favor of the bill, the board would need to approve a policy statement on the matter, but that he planned to speak to several of the governance committees that oversee the topics involved.

“The topics discussed by the Innocence Project are vitally important to all of us,” he says.

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on August 23, 2012.

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1. 1. m 03:15 AM 8/24/12

   Geez I can solve (almost) every crime easily.
   
   You have satellites right...you have pattern matching right...you have street maps right... You have extrapolation patterns based on habits right....you can see where they are all at times with a high probability.
   
   Just need a network of decent satellites and ill solve every crime for you.
   
   Didnt say i couldnt do it...just theres a large cost involved. Still beats the 100000 people to every cop there is now and itll be automated.
   
   

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2. 2. m 03:30 AM 8/24/12

   If you dont like that idea, then insert a location device onto everyone in a location where a crime has been committed but only where a crime has been committed...
   
   People want want to be tagged...will they, so crime will stop. If crime doesnt stop the tag will show where they were and catch them.
   
   Prevention in a nutshell...

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