Search
Type of search most used for searching normal sized rooms? How is it done?
Zone Search
How do you secure a gun or knife?
Box with zip ties so it doesn't move around
Two swabs you take of blood or bodily fluid on a surface.
Control Swab, Evidence Swab
Comparing a hair found at the crime scene with a potential suspects hair.
Reference Sample
What do you tell the judges you have before entering the room and what amendment do you say it goes with?
A search warrant from a judge. 4th amendment
Search you would do for a large field and how is it done?
Lane search
What do you need to do with bloody clothes before packaging in a paper bag.
Hang them up in the evidence room to dry. (You can't use a fan!)
How do you make sure you get all of the hairs and fibers in a room?
Vacuum the floor. Different vacuum for each room.
What is a invisible to the naked ear fingerprint called? And a visible to the naked eye fingerprint?
Latent and Patent
Evidence that tends to implicate a potential suspect. (Make them look guilty)
Inculpatory Evidence
Two times you would do a nighttime search?
Kidnapping case. Or it happened outdoors and a storm is coming.
DNA Database name
CODIS
VCIN, NCIC
What do you do if you accidentally kick a piece of evidence?
Leave it wear it lands and just write about it in the narrative.
What does locard's principle say and what do we do to avoid breaking the principle.
Two objects or people that come into contact will leave trace evidence. Wear personal protective gear like gloves
During a zone search how many times is each zone of the room searched?
twice
Fingerprint Database
AFIS
Two police Units/Departments you can check with if you have a potential suspect name and drugs or gang violence are suspected.
Vice/Narcotics Unit, Gang Unit
What are the two categories that evidence is placed into?
Individual and Class
The suit you wear over your clothes?
tyvek suit
How do you determine if something at a crime scene is a drug?
Field Test
Best way to collect evidence so that you insure no cross contamination occurs.
Changes gloves after packaging each piece of evidence.
Using a flashlight at an angle to see latent prints.
Oblique lighting
Stiffening of the muscles after death.
Rigor Mortis