This is the principle task of patrol officers who are first responders to a crime scene.
What is secure the crime scene?
100
This is probably a more appropriate term to use over "cold case."
What is "unresolved?"
100
These are considered to be the "widows to the soul."
What are the "eyes?"
100
It is this person's chief duty to arrange and collate numerous individual events, details, and observations in an order to provide a clear picture of the crime, victims, and suspects.
Who is the crime scene analyst?
100
Name off at least 4 typical investigative units in a typical police department.
What are: robbery, homicide, economic crime, arson, hate crimes, juvenile, and sexual assaults?
200
This officer completes the primary investigation and the initial offense report.
Who is the initial responder/primary officer responding to the scene?
200
These types of crimes commonly turn into "cold cases" - missing persons, gang killing, deaths of officers, or all of the above.
What is ALL OF THE ABOVE?
200
This sensory channel of the five senses is most functional for including behavior.
What is "feeling?"
200
This is the investigative unit of the crime lab that performs DNA profiling.
What is the "toxicology" unit?
200
Name 4 types of units that might be found in a crime lab.
What are: toxicology, document examination, latent fingerprint examination, polygraph unit, firearms unit, physical science, photography, and voiceprint analysis?
300
Videos, pictures, sketches, and recorded conversations with potential witnesses are all essential parts of THIS.
What is "documenting the crime scene?"
300
When an officer is trying to build rapport when interviewing a suspect, this is the key thing for the officer to do.
What is "matching the suspect's body language?"
300
Non-threatening questions that simply require a suspect to recall information from memory is used during a polygraph to create THIS.
What is a "baseline?"
300
Human errors in forensic assessments, eyewitness errors in observations, and incompetent prosecutors have ALL led to THIS.
What are "wrongful convictions?"
400
The goal of THIS is to: obtain a confession, gain information about possible suspects, and receive background info about the victim.
What are interrogations?
400
The fear that a suspect's actions will shock family and friends is known as THIS.
What is "fear of losing self-image?"
400
Head in hands, elbows on knees, and shoulders hunched by a suspect during an interrogation might all indicate THIS.
What is "surrender?"
400
This is a typical requirement for a new hire in a forensics lab or in a forensics position.
What is a college degree?
400
Explain a reason why police officers might be reluctant to use crime labs.
What is: backlog of cases with the lab, no suspect had been identified, no money for testing, suspect not charged, officer attitudes, or DA didn't request?
500
This is the TYPE of hate crime that occurs the most frequently.
What is "racially motivated?"
500
This instrument, while not admissible in Court, is important in providing officers with a focus during their interrogation and investigation process.
What is the "polygraph?"
500
These people tend to produce the fewest outward clues that they are lying.
What are the "best liars?"
500
This is the phrase that refers to the erroneous belief that the public has gained from watching TV crime shows that crimes should be easy and quick to resolve by forensics.
What is the "CSI Effect?"
500
The fact that they are underfunded, undercertified, constantly under attack, need more personnel, and testing is generally slow are all criticisms of this entity.
What is the State Crime Lab/CSI/CBI/forensics unit?