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Orison: If there is no crime, there is no need for a criminal investigation.

What are the steps and characteristics of a successful criminal investigation?  First is receiving the call/report or detecting a crime in progress. Once a crime has been reported or observed by an officer the investigation begins. Suspects are identified as well as victims and witnesses, Statements are collected and the suspects are secured so they are not a threat to the officers and other people on scene. Next evidence of the crime is located, identified, documented, collected, processed and secured.  The suspect is then taken into custody and transported to a jail where they are booked in. The officer now begins the paperwork side of things with an arrest custody affidavit. Next comes the officer’s report and documentation in preparation for the court process.  Now it is a waiting game until it either goes to court or the suspect and DA’s office reach an agreement. Last is the court process and testifying.  

•Why is evidence collection so important to a crime scene investigation?  Evidence links the suspect to the crime and provides proof that the crime was committed. If the officer does a poor job collecting evidence or does not follow the chain of custody the case is no longer a good one and the suspect walks.

•What can negatively and positively impact evidence collection? Provide examples from a particular crime scene featured in Criminal Investigation or another source. Training and experience have a large impact on whether the evidence collection goes good or bad. A green officer fresh out of the academy may do a better job of collecting evidence that the retired on duty old timer. On the other hand the old timer may have some tricks learned in the field that can help the green officer in collecting the evidence.

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It is without a doubt that the investigational process is crucial to the continued safety of the public at large, however, we often overlook the true meaning of the process and its integrity in keeping individuals from becoming falsely accused of act they have no link too (Robert M. Julien, 2010, pp. 10-15). The process that you have discussed regarding the investigational process and the evidence collection and analysis seems like repetitive behavior for law enforcement officers. However, repetitive and boring it may seem, is fundamental to the process that follow such as arrest and prosecution. I would think that having such a repetitive career would create dwindling uninspiring working conditions, something law enforcement cannot afford, yet, human in nature. Evidence is a twofold perceptive in which you only mentioned one, that is linking the crime to a given individual or individuals, however, more often than not, the witness statement and collected evidence is used to eliminate potential suspects and/or create the bigger picture of the crime scene itself; step by step accounts of the suspects behavioral actions during the commission of the crime. Knowledge is by far one of the most important considerations, however, experience does create an intuitive officer based of encountered situations and circumstances.

Robert M. Julien. (2010, October 1st). To intend or not to intend: that is the question. Ebsco Host, pp. 10-15.


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Excellent resource! Really helped me get the gist of things.

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