History of Crime Labs
The world's largest crime lab
What is FBI or Federal Bureau of Investigation?
Important aids to a criminal investigation and require the involvement of individuals who have highly specialized skills?
What are services?
Crime labs in the U.S. have developed rapidly or slowly?
What is rapidly?
Crime labs have these 2 types of services.
The Supreme Court case in the 1960s established this
What is securing scientifically evaluated evidence?
This year the Federal Bureau of Investigation was organized into a national lab.
What is 1932?
Examines and records physical evidence using digital imaging, etc.
What is the photography unit?
Most forensic labs function under this.
What is the directions of local police departments?
Collects, identifies, classifies, and processes evidence collected from crime scenes
DNA testing has proven the innocence of this many people in the U.S.
What is 367?
Analyze drugs seized in violation of federal laws
What is the DEA or Drug Enforcement Administration?
Applies principles and techniques of chemistry, physics, and geology to identify and compare crime scene evidence
What is the physical science unit?
Approximately this many public crime labs operate at various levels of government.
What is 400?
Collects and analyzes biological evidence found on clothing, weapons
What is forensic biologist (crime lab scientist)?
This is one of the four major federal crime labs.
What is the FBI, the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the U.S Postal Inspection Service
Quantico, Virginia
What is where the FBI's forensic services are housed?
Toxicology unit
What is examines body fluids and organs to determine the presence or absence of drugs and poisons?
These are the levels of government a crime lab operates at.
What are federal, state, county, and municipal?
This unit uses a lie detector for interrogation
What is a polygrpah unit?
DNA testing can take this long.
What is up to 2 to 3 weeks?
The U.S. does not currently maintain this.
What is a national system of forensic labs?
Investigating a bite mark on someone's arm would be the work of
What is the forensic odontology unit?
The development of crime labs are characterized by a lack of this.
What is a lack of national and regional planning/coordination?
This service studies handwritten and typewritten questioned documents to confirm authority and/or source
What is the Documentation Examination Unit?
The image with the lines on the fun facts slide depicts this.
What is a fingerprint match analysis test?