Most of them are bullshit, and the ones that aren't are ripe and ready to be used to bullshit people.

Every new kind of forensics is treated like it's going to be the solution to solving crime, when what it really is, is yet another excuse not to put the time and effort into investigation, the one thing that actually solves crimes.

CCTV has the same problem, we think it will solve crimes, when it can actually do a lot, but we constantly see cases of crimes happening in public or on camera where the police haven't even taken the half hour it would take to ask local businesses for their footage. And when they even do _that_, then they don't rarely bother to follow up leads.

Policing is just an endless, endless stream of people with what are actually very important jobs who only go into it for exactly the wrong reasons.