Criminal's

The police balked the criminal's escape.

The FBI secretly wiretapped the criminal's room.

We are still unaware of the criminal's motives.

The police hid a listening device in the criminal's car.

Darkness is a criminal's favorite accomplice.

The Stanford mathematician says that single criminal acts are much more difficult to solve using mathematics, since there's no pattern yet to the criminal's behavior. He says one especially useful tool in these cases is image enhancement, which uses sophisticated mathematical techniques. Images taken from surveillance cameras, camera phones, and even helicopters, can be enhanced to show an incredible amount of detail that was not apparent before. "You can enhance that image so not only can you recognize that person, but you can see details like tattoos on people's arms, and scars on their legs," remarks Devlin.