Junior Year- Week Twenty-Four

Our lessons in both forensics and criminal justice are kind of the same things. We are learning about crime scenes and how to handle and secure them and make sure that we are observing everything. For forensics we had done mock crime scenes, we were placed in groups and gotten our parts for the scene we had been given to act out. After that we had made questions, rather obvious questions that almost everyone should be able answer after have seen the scene. We than acted ours out and discovered that its really hard to recall even some of the most simplistic things when a crime is being committed. Some of us couldn’t even remember the name of the man involved in the robbery or what the name of the suspect was. My group couldn’t figure out what the victims had dropped when they were running away. So when the crime is being committed it’s hard to remember and see what is really happening the first time that’s why witnesses and cameras are so important because what the witness saw may not be actually accurate.

In criminal justice we had been lectured about the importance of making sure we had secured the crime scene and collect all the possible evidence even if it doesn’t really seem that important to the case. Every detail of the crime scene is extremely important in catching the suspect. Mr. Lavery gave us some examples like a gum wrapper at a scene of a murder in a house, doesn’t exactly seem to important but the killer could had touched that wrapper when he had put the gum in his mouth just minutes before murdering the victim. So small things can definitely g a long way when it comes to evidence and you only have one chance to collect it all.

As well as secure the scene is important you must be trained to be able to handle if someone does attack you when the house wasn’t cleared properly. So we worked in 203, our lab, in order to better prepare for working on the streets. We learned outer wrist locks and variations of the wrist lock. We also learned finger locks and once put things together realized that both can be very effective when you are dealing with someone trying to put you into a negative time frame. Negative time frame is basically going to result in the officer being killed. The suspect should never have the ultimate control over the officer. In order to remain in control the officer must continue to stay in a positive time frame