Role of NYPD in the Coffee Bar Case
New York Police Department officers used digital forensic and interviews to solve the Coffee Bar case. NYPD detectives visited the King Group offices to collect the fingerprints, hands marks, and palms to evaluate the DNA. McKinley Jr. states that the detectives wanted to compare the prints with the others where Pilmar was murdered. The police could not get a confession from the suspect although they found their prints at the crime scene. Hence, they conducted a post-mortem on Pilmar's body and concluded that the murderer killed because of personal reasons. In their report, they confirmed that the murderer shared a close relationship with the victim. The DNA proved that Mr. Wald’s blood was at the scene of the murder (McKinley Jr.).
Digital multiplexing and videotaped surveillance cameras illustrated the level of security in the city by NYPD officers. The introduction of digital multiplexing in the 1990s indicated progress in the history of video surveillance in Manhattan neighborhood. When digital multiplexer units became cost-effective, it revolutionized the surveillance sector by allowing recording on numerous cameras simultaneously. Digital multiplex was effective because it had features such as motion-only copy and time-lapse
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The detectives found evidence that linked Mrs. Pilmar to her husband’s murder. The investigators were patient to ensure that they arrested the actual murderer. They did not discuss any evidence connected to the Coffee Bar murder. The detectives were not ready to declare Mrs. Pilmar as a suspect, although the detectives insisted that they were making sluggish but steady progress. It was right for the police to interview the family of the deceased even when they did not give answers that were not satisfactory. They gathered enough evidence that was essential in solving the Coffee Bar case (McKinley