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You are the public information officer for a medium-sized metropolitan city police department. The police department is fictitious, but the geographical location will be in an environment that you select (i.e., New England, East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast, plains, mountains). You may have a border city with Mexico or Canada. You have been tasked…

You are the public information officer for a medium-sized metropolitan city police department. The police department is fictitious, but the geographical location will be in an environment that you select (i.e., New England, East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast, plains, mountains). You may have a border city with Mexico or Canada. You have been tasked…

You are an interface coordinator for the Directorate of National Intelligence. You have been asked to brief a half dozen freshman senators that will soon be members of the National Security Committee. You are required to explain the functions of the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation in relationship to their responsibilities…

Students will analyze the conflict that law enforcement officers pose when investigating one of their own. Because police officers have immunity, justification for not prosecuting is often given to the prosecution. The Botham Jean case is a perfect example of why law enforcement officers should not have the power to investigate their own. Even when…

Agency cooperation is key to ensure that a suspect who has committed crimes in multiple jurisdictions is captured. Not all federal or state agencies are alike. For example, whenever there is dual involvement, one agency will take on the primary role while the other takes secondary. In cases where it is a federal and state…

Students should be able to elaborate on the need for a federal consent decree and its impact on law enforcement. From Chicago to Ferguson, federal consent decrees have been put in place because of identified errors due to a lack of law enforcement accountability. Although the target of consent decrees is to help correct a…

You are an instructor for a state crime lab. It is your responsibility to start the basic training for the new candidates that upon completion of their training will report to crime scene units in their first assignments as crime scene investigators. Your first lesson involves explaining the 2 categories of physical evidence used for…

Handling evidence is done for a number of reasons. After it is photographed, drawn in the crime scene sketch, and listed in the crime scene notes, it should be processed. There may be an analysis done at the scene and packages for storage in the evidence repository, or the evidence may be collected for transportation…

In this assignment, you will be exploring tasks that an actual crime scene investigator might accomplish. There has been a murder in which it is clear that a person riding a mountain bike on the side of a dirt country road was intentionally struck down by a suspect. The suspect then stepped out of his or her vehicle and shot…

Do you know what the term computer forensics means? Many people do not nor do they understand the techniques involved to find and obtain evidence. Computer forensics is part of digital forensic science, and the goal for the investigator is to examine forensically with the goal of identifying, obtaining, and analyzing digital information. Depending upon the skill…