Liam Grealy
Forensics
Mr. Ippolito
Current event 13
Jan. 10, 2018
BAKER, AL. "DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case." New York times. N.p., 10 Jan. 2018. Web.
This article talks about a woman was raped at 5:30 p.m. in Prospect Park while carrying groceries home. The police said that technology unavailable in 1994. However recently with the new technology in forensics it allowed them to match the suspect’s DNA with a serial rapist serving life in prison in Sing Sing. They were unable to convict him due to the statute of limitations. However it still gave closure to the woman and her family. The article talks about how now with the new advancements in technology we are able to solve closed cases to help bring closure to countless victims. Although in the case of this victim the perpetrator is not behind bars for the crime he commited with her. Luckily he is still behind bars as he was an all around bad person not an isolated event.
New technology helps families get closure. This woman along with countless others have been living with uncertainty for decades. Finally they know most of the story about the horrific event which happened to them and can try and move on with their lives. This article made me think that the statute of limitations is a crooked system. It causes crimes to go without convicting the criminal. After a certain number of years it leaves the victims without total closure. They have the closure of knowing who did the crime to them but the perpetrator could still be running loose on the streets able to commit another crime. I think it is important to society that we keep people safe and If we have the statute of limitations we can limit how safe we keep people. It also helped the woman to gain her credibility back. Before the perpetrator was caught the woman was called a lier. This is common with rape cases that people believe victims are lying. With this new technological advancement in DNA she along with many others to show that this heinous crime truly did happen. I feel like there is nothing worse than to be accused of lying about such a horrible event.
The article didn't give much information about how the advances in DNA technology worked and I would have liked to know how it has advanced since 1994. I have gained a better respect for Blood and DNA analysis after beginning the blood splatter lab I wanted to learn more about how blood and other DNA works in identifying a perpetrator.
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This week I read Liam’s review of "DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case," which was in the New York Times recently. The article had to do with a woman that was raped at 5:30 p.m. in Prospect Park while carrying groceries home in 1994. This was a very interesting article thought brought about very good points about the stance of this rape how crucial the DNA evidence was. They were unable to convict him due to the statute of limitations. However it still gave closure to the woman and her family. Liam speaks on how "the article talks about how now with the new advancements in technology we are able to solve closed cases to help bring closure to countless victims." Thank god he is still behind bars today because for a man who was almost not convicted he definitely should be. The new technology helps these families get foreclosure and feel better about the cases. They also help convict the felons and terrible people.
New technology is so huge in the field of forensics because of how useful it is. It helps grieving families figure out the truth behind lost love ones and other. DNA helps figure out and show the truth behind so many mysteries in the field of forensics. As Liam says,"With this new technological advancement in DNA she along with many others to show that this heinous crime truly did happen. I feel like there is nothing worse than to be accused of lying about such a horrible event." It brings justice to these cases.
Over all this case was a great example of how forensics with DNA works. It shows how hard the people are working on these cases to in the end find justice. The new technology needs to continue in order to make the most accuracy analysis. It is great to see all the success the new technology brings. I think Liam did a great job and showed us how it works very well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/prospect-park-rape-solved-dna.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%20Science&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
BAKER, AL. "DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case." New York times. N.p., 10 Jan. 2018. Web.
Andy Goldbaum CE 14 1/17/18 Forensics Ippolito
Baker, Al, and Alan Feuer. “DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case.”The New York Times, © 2018 The New York Times Company, Alain Delaquérière, 9 Jan. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/prospect-park-rape-solved-dna.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%2BScience&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.
Liam Grealy gave a thoughtful analysis of the article, “DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case”, by Alan Feuer and Al Baker of The New York Times. For example, when describing what Grealy learned about society, particularly the relationship between law abiding citizens and the criminal justice system, he pointed out that even those of us who abide by the law and have an inherent trust and respect for the criminal justice system should really be more rarely because even if we are not targets of their investigations, the “crooked” aspects of the system, such as the statute that limits the ability to prosecute perpetrators for rape in certain instances, still makes us targets to the criminals the justice system allows to remain on the loose. Not only does Grealy’s response provide an answer to the question of how the article’s contents affect society by getting to the very roots of our inherent trust for the justice system, but he sparks further debate by raising a more general question about what the right balance is between the safety of our citizens and the civil liberties of our criminals. Another thoughtful aspect of Liam’s article is how he relates our learning about DNA evidence to how he believes the article should be improved. Not only is he correct in that the article deceiving by including “DNA helping” in the title while rarely even touching on exactly what changed between the nineties and now in terms of how DNA is used to identify a perpetrator, but his response shows how his expectations changed as he has been a forensics student for longer. Thirdly, his summary is concise by only including the details most closely related to the message of the article: advancements of technology are able to help solve long-closed cases and bring long-needed closure to victims. Grealy realized that although the article described the debate over journalistic integrity that resulted from this case fairly in depth, it was not related to the forensics aspect of the case, or DNA evidence.
Despite the thoughtfulness of Grealy’s response, it could be improved in two key ways. Although Grealy includes a thoughtful response to how the article could have been improved, his overall opinion of the article and what he thought was particularly strong about the article was completely missing. Even if he did not think that the article was particularly strong, it would have been more thorough for Grealy to state this outright. Secondly, although the summary was concise, it did not read as well as it could have. For example, Grealy stated that the, “article talks about a woman was raped…” when he should have worded it, “who was raped”, and he did not complete his second sentence by including only a subject, “technology” and not a verb.
I always understood that the question of whether civil liberties or safety takes precedence has sparked and continues to spark one of the most important debates in American foreign policy, from Benjamin Franklin’s statement on the issue that those who sacrifice liberty for temporary safety deserve neither of these things to George Bush’s controversial surveillance measures in the Patriot Act after 9/11. However, from this article I learned that this debate is also an ethical debate law officials and even forensics scientists must have at the city level, as protective statutes of possible rape perpetrators can sometimes prevent useful new technologies like DNA evidence from guaranteeing the safety of innocent people but protect the civil liberties of the accused.
Ayten El-Hennawy
Current Event 14
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/prospect-park-rape-solved-dna.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%20Science&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
BAKER, AL. "DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case." New York times. N.p., 10 Jan. 2018. Web.
Liam’s review for the article “DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case” was very interesting to read. I liked how Liam talked about how new technology helps families and connected it with the article. I also liked how he included a lot of background information from the article to help the reader have a more clear idea of what was going on exactly. Lastly, I liked how he also mentioned how the article didn’t talk about any advancements regarding DNA technology.
Although, Liam’s review was pretty straightforward, i think it would've been better if he included quotes in his review as he didn't have any. Another thing i think could have helped is maybe if he provided some information about DNA identification it would've been helpful. Overall i thought this article was very interesting and I think Liam did a good job overall.
BAKER, AL. "DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case." New York Times.
N.p., 10 Jan. 2018. Web.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/prospect-park-rape-solved-dna.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%20Science&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
Liam wrote an excellent review to the article “DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case” by Al Baker and Alan Feuer. He begins with a succinct and informative summary that provides the reader with all of the information concerning the case. I thought that Liam did a great job of discussing importance of closure for victims and their families and brought up an interesting point about the statute of limitations. I also liked how he applied this article to the blood spatter lab that we recently completed in class.
While Liam wrote a well-written and thorough current event report, there are two places where he could improve. I think that Liam should have included a quote or two in his review in order to show the perspective of an expert or someone who is close to the case. I also think that it would have been helpful for the reader if Liam had explained what the authors did well in the article instead of just criticizing their work.
I think that this article is important because it deals with a rape cold case that has finally been solved thanks to DNA technology that was not available at the time of the rape. I also think that this article is worth talking about because of the fact that due to the statute of limitations, the man who committed the rape was not able to be tried for his crime. I think it brings up an interesting point concerning the merits of this law.
Zach Zucker
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/prospect-park-rape-solved-dna.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FForensic%20Science&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
BAKER, AL. "DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case." New York times. N.p., 10 Jan. 2018. Web.
From Liam’s review of "DNA Helps New York Police Solve Infamous 1994 Rape Case.”, I felt that I was able to learn many new things that he explained. Liam incited many great details in his review. For example, Liam did a good job explaining the background of the story and kept the timeline throughout the review very clear. This made it easy for readers to understand his review. Secondly, Liam added quotes from the article which gives the reader another incite about what others thought about the case. For example, Liam used the quote “This article made me think that the statute of limitations is a crooked system.” to help set up his own opinion. Also, I thought Liam did a good job on adding his own thoughts and opinions into the review rather than just straight facts.
Although, Liam could add a few more ideas to his review to make it perfect. First, I think that Liam should add more about the forensics part of the crime. Along with this, there are parts where Liam can make his point more clear and concise through the review.
Overall, I think Liam did a good job summarizing the article and adding his own thoughts and opinions. I found this review interesting and informative because I have never heard of this case and I am happy Liam brought up this article for his review.
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