Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced a new $2.5 million unit at the city medical examiner’s office that he said will cut DNA analysis in gun crimes in half. The DNA Gun Crimes Unit will be ...

The Office of the City Medical Examiner is in the process of hiring two dozen forensic scientists to staff its new DNA Gun Crimes Unit, Adams and the city’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Jason ...

A special DNA gun crimes unit of the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner has significantly reduced the time it takes to find genetic material on firearms seized by police officers ...

NEW YORK-- Guns used in crimes in New York City will be analyzed faster. That's the aim of a first-of-its-kind unit at the city's Medical Examiner's Office. CBS2's Dave Carlin has more on a new ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City will get a first-of-its kind gun crimes unit at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), Mayor Eric Adams announced with other city officials Thursday.