Junior Year- Week Five

                We started more take down techniques to prepare us for the real world of policing.  The arm bar take down is something we have reviewed and modified based on the situation.  Nerves are the primary focus for our take down techniques. When a nervous is hit it changes your thought process which than confuses the mind which results in the officer having control. We learned two place for nerves that will easily allow the officer to take control of the situation, one is the side of the leg, and the second is the side of the neck. To strike either of these places it takes some force but will never cause damage to the person forever.  We also learned how to take control from the wrist. The wrist is twisted and than pushed back towards the outside of the hand causing the person to lean forward which than allows the officer to take control. In the classroom notes were taken over World War II and the returning veterans. The Veterans had an effect on the policing community because they began to create police forces based on military tactics. They had also started joining police forces allow the cities departments to grow.

                In forensics we started learning about the spectcopy which is studying the density of unknown objects and what an object is based on the absorbance rate and other things involving light. But that unit won’t be started until later in the year. Before we are able to go into the lab we have to complete the lab safety test and must receive one hundred percent on it. This allows Mr. Mauser to know that everyone will be safe and will know what to do in the case of an emergency. Today we learned that we will start DNA and analysis of DNA. We learned about all the different tools and where everything is in lab. The fact that we are expected to be able to work alone like lab technicians is kind of exciting because it’s like real life experience.  Which is a great thing because forensics is the career I want to go into so being able to experience it in high school is something is a really cool because most kids in high school will never  experience this career field before college.