Letter: Editor's reply to "Dragnet invention: just the facts"

Published 6 January 2016

• It has been tried, for example by the New York Police Department (3 May 1997, p 7). We note, however, the lack of triumphant updates.

Issue no. 3055 published 9 January 2016

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