lord_casek Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Target sets sights on hard-to-crack cases I got an unusual assignment this week -- Target's crime lab. Yes, I'm talking about that Target, the national "upscale discounter," as they style themselves in the information package the company hands out to reporters. Turns out Target has one of the most advanced crime labs in the country at its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was initially set up to deal with things like theft, fraud, and personal injury cases in their stores. Now, Target also helps law enforcement agencies nationwide solve crimes, even murders. Target has worked with the Secret Service, the ATF, and the FBI, to name a few. Target does the work for free, seeing it as a kind of community service. It doesn't advertise its crime lab services, but word started spreading and law enforcement agencies started asking for help. Some government agency labs aren't as well-equipped as Target's. In other cases, Target can get results faster because of logjams in agency labs. Target's lab is run by an ex-FBI agent and boasts a staff of forensic experts. They spend a lot of time analyzing video from surveillance cameras in their own stores. The day we visited we looked at how they helped crack a murder case using video from a convenience store security camera in Minneapolis. The Target team cleaned up the image of the shooting suspect, but that wasn't enough to identify him. Then they figured out what kind of car he was driving, even though you could barely see the vehicle through the store's window on the surveillance tape. It was the stuff of CSI. Police put these pieces together to help identify the murderer. He's now serving a life sentence in prison. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.c...d-to-crack.html weird, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grc Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 very weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sparoism Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Outsourcing to Target? That's some shit I wouldn't have thought of. "And our Blue Light special is ballistics today....you pay for the lab costs on the first bullet, and the second one is on us!" The world is a strange place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vacuum cleaner Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 That's interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 10, 2006 Author Share Posted February 10, 2006 Target's lab is run by an ex-FBI agent and boasts a staff of forensic experts. They spend a lot of time analyzing video from surveillance cameras in their own stores. uh huh...fat lazy cunts. i bet the profile people right off the bat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godless Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 I wouldnt think that this is even legal. Just because they have the expensive toys, doesnt mean that they should be trusted in using them to decide someones fate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 10, 2006 Author Share Posted February 10, 2006 Originally posted by Godless@Feb 10 2006, 08:51 AM I wouldnt think that this is even legal. Just because they have the expensive toys, doesnt mean that they should be trusted in using them to decide someones fate. Quoted post fbi, cia, nsa...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedish erotica Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 target will own you. :yuck: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spectr Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 watch out for those target police raiding your house at 6 in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunm Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Originally posted by Sparoism@Feb 10 2006, 06:53 AM Outsourcing to Target? That's some shit I wouldn't have thought of. "And our Blue Light special is ballistics today....you pay for the lab costs on the first bullet, and the second one is on us!" Quoted post :haha: :haha: :haha: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 further merging and inter-working of the corporate-federal system in implementation of various agendas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonesome Cowboy Bill Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 I bought my dvd player, my softball glove and xmas lights at target... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Target thought it was a good idea to build a crime lab, then didn't need it.... wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 12, 2006 Author Share Posted February 12, 2006 Originally posted by Soup@Feb 11 2006, 01:21 AM Target thought it was a good idea to build a crime lab, then didn't need it.... wow. Quoted post well, most likely it was on the agenda to 'not need it'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 stealing a pillow is a very serious crime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grc Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 target is coming to honolulu soon (maybe) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourSistersAssCookie Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 target carries good rusto markers as far as their crimelab shit. Fuck Them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 fuck target they fired me for being like 5 minutes late. bitches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 there was a security guard that stood by the door of my local target, now he's not there. i wonder what it means? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 hes become a ninja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 That is some interesting stuff. It definitely does raise some legal/ethical questions, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistaccio Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Originally posted by grc@Feb 10 2006, 12:45 AM very weird Quoted post agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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