Fun new data storage error in the Heilbronn DNA Mixup: “It now turns out that the several-hundred-men task force might have really been chasing a phantom… All the swabs used in the forensics works were sourced from the same supplier.” Yup.

When the watchers become the watched: “Surveillance cameras have captured the faces of criminal suspects in banks, in elevators and on street corners. But they have also surfaced in an unexpected law enforcement role: as evidence against police officers accused of misconduct or of lying on the witness stand.”