Section 1.4 Flashcards
Who has one of the most important jobs in the investigation that shows up first to the crime scene?
patrol officers
Who shows up to the scene and begins to gather information, catalog evidence, and follow leads?
Investigators and Detectives
In reality all that CSI does it show up to the crime scene and gather the evidence. True or False
True
The TV show CSI is wrong because all CSI does is show up to gather the evidence. There is someone else who analyzes the evidence and tracks down the leads. It is a team and not just one person. True or False.
True
To be a good investigator you need to be ____________.
Knowledgeable
A crime investigation can last years or with the trial it could be longer. This means investigators need to be _______.
Patient
Investigators need to be _________. Example, sometimes just to be able to get someone one to confess.
Creative
Investigators have to be willing to sit there and ask the same question over and over in different ways to determine If the person is lying or not. Investigators need to be ___________?
persistant
Investigators need to have a good memory.
True
The table is white.
Matter of Fact
The chair is blue.
Matter of fact
Cookies and cream ice cream is the best ice cream. Is measurable? If not, what is it considered?
No
Opinion
________ is based on facts but is not a fact itself.
Inferences
The doors and the windows were locked.
Matter of Fact
The man is dead and he has a gun in his hand. An inference could be what?
He committed suicide
Inferences may not be true but it based on fairly obvious facts. True or False
True
This man is crazy because he committed suicide.
Opinion
If you are an investigator you need to be good at figuring out the difference between the fact, inference, and the opinion. True or False
True
_____ should be the basis of everything.
Facts
Any inferences need to be based on what?
Facts
The facts that you pay attention to should not be based on the inferences you have already made. True or False
True
Your ______ should never enter it, especially at trial when you are on the witness stand.
Opinion
Step 1: Crime happens.
ok
After crime happens
Step 2:
Crime is reported
Who gets the initial call that a crime is occurring?
Dispatch
The Dispatch has a very important job because they get the first beginnings of a case and they have to report everything that they learn to the officers. True or False
True
After the crime is reported.
Step 3:
Officer arrival
Officers are dispatched and how fast they get their depends on the severity of the crime. True or False
True
If there is a mass shooting vs someone keying you car. Where are the officers going first?
The mass shooting
Officer arrival is based on what system?
Triage
Active shooting takes priority and then other active crimes and then serious crimes that are not active and then all other crimes. This is based on the system that officers use for arrival times.
Triage
When the officer arrives at the scene they must first determine what?
If the crime is in progress
The first priority after officers arrive is to do what?
Find the guy committing the crime if he has not already left.
If the criminal has already left the scene the second job of the officers is to make sure that everyone is safe and help with medical issues. True or False
True
If it is a murder case the job is for officers to give medical assistance and after this what do they do?
Crime Scene Protection
Anyone who is in a crime scene is going to take something with them and leave something behind. Because of this the crime scene needs to be _______.
Protected
What is one of the worst crime scene contaminant?
Officers who do not know what they are doing and do the wrong thing.
Once the crime scene is secured what takes place?
Preliminary investigation
____ ______ means in practical terms is excited or spontaneous statements made by witnesses, offenders or victims without promoting.
Res Gestae
If you show up and someone is screaming “Billy Bob killed him”. This is an example of what?
Res Gestae statements
A statement that was made spontaneously at or near the time of the crime is called what?
Res Gestae Statements
Res Gestae statements are important because they are an exception to what?
Hearsay rule
_______ _____ says that I cannot testify in court about what someone else said because it is hearsay unless it meets one of the exceptions to the rule like Res Gestae.
Hearsay Rule
If the case is complicated what needs to happen?
The officer needs to call in backup
What is the most common field test?
BAC
A sobriety test is an example of what?
Field test
If a case is major and ongoing you may want. to set up what?
A command center
As an officer it is your responsibility to not tell information that you are not supposed to let out but you also need to keep a good working relationship with who?
The media
