Recording Crime

Also, having records of the crime scene allows investigators to look back over the evidence as it appeared at the scene long after the crime scene itself is gone.

Law enforcement agencies use three different sources to collect crime statistics. They use official statistics, victimizations surveys, and self-report surveys as their main sources of collecting data. The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Texas at Austin both have pretty similar crime statistics.

Another role that the police have is to Interview suspected criminals. For example, a crime like rape, the police would have to eliminate or track down the right suspect in order to make sure that they can prosecute anyone who has potentially committed the crime or has some way been involved.

The Uniform Crime Reports can also be described as a summary reporting system (Criminal Justice Information Services Division, 2000. pg. 5). The National Incident-Based Reporting System is much more detailed in nature. When it comes to the offense recording, the hierarchy rule is used only in the UCR which only records one offense no matter if there were several crimes that occurred. However, the NIBRS records each crime even if they are part of one incident, therefore the hierarchy is not applied (Criminal Justice Information Services Division, 2000, pg. 13). UCR does not distinguish between completed and attempted crimes whereas the NIBRS does. When it comes to rapes, the UCR only classifies rapes against women where the NIBRS classifies rapes against men also (Rantala & Edwards, 2000, pg. 1). In collecting information on weapons, the UCR only collects it for murder, robbery, and aggravated assaults. The NIBRS collects weapon information on all crimes. Even though, both the UCR and NIBRS collects information on the 8 index crimes, the UCR only has another 21 offenses in contrast with NIBRS’s 49 offenses to collect information on. Under the hotel rule, the UCR only reports a theft at the hotel, whereas the NICRS also includes the detailed rooms at the hotel and also classifies storage facilities as part of this rule as well (Rantala & Edwards, 2000, pg. 5).

will help provide the police with exact locations as to where the crime was done. This will

The police must register an incident report for all incidents. For example if there is has been a RTC (Road Traffic Collision) and the driver has ran off because he/she may be wanted by the police or has caused the accident but there is a witness at the scene then the police officer that is in charge must take a statement from the witness and record this when he/she gets back to the police station.

From examining the past, we can understand why certain rules and regulations have been put into place. For example, body cameras are now being required based off of events that have taken place in the past. The police shootings against African American males has brought much attention to police violence and the need for body cameras. Because of the past shootings, police officers across the nation are now required by law to wear body cameras while on duty. Another event that can be related to this subject is the right to drive your vehicle in front of certain buildings. Because of past bombings, as well as shootings, you prohibited by law from driving your vehicle in front of particular buildings such as, the White House and Capitol. These

In todays society, American citizens are unpleased with the law enforcement officers. These officers are here protecting the people of America, and to get the people doing the wrong things off the street so the rest of the people can be safe. In the past few months, there have been shootings of American citizens, and shootings of law enforcement officers. The people of society are only seeing the bad side of police officers, and never understand the whole story when needed to be heard. As the internet continues to expand, the promises it makes is beyond human understanding (Carr 56). The internet and television are the most complex form of technology, and only portray the bad side of cops. “The idea of multimedia is to combine text, sound, and pictures in a single package that you browse on screen” (Gelernter 97). The idea of body cameras put in the uniforms of the law enforcement officers has been talked about, so that everyone can see the exact truth of the situation. The idea of body cameras for the law enforcement officers has it benefits and drawbacks. I think having the body cameras will greatly benefit the law enforcement officers in society today and in the future.

(1) Arresting someone who appears to be intoxicated would constitute as discrimination unless the person who appears to be intoxicated does something unlawful like causing a disturbance or endanger others and themselves. However if a police officer suspects criminal activity or the suspect is acting or appear intoxicated they have the right to search and frisk. Whether or not the suspect should be arrested should depend on how they act, not how they look. Police have the right to detain people for even just acting intoxicated to protect the well being for themselves and others.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky enacted law governing open records in 1976. The law mandates agencies release applicable records to the public upon appropriate requests. The Louisville Metro Police Department adopted a policy to address and comply with this law. I will review and discuss how LMPD applies its policy in order to stay in compliance with this law. I will also evaluate any improvements to the policy for better or more efficient application.

Recently, authorized law enforcement agencies and police departments are increasingly adopting the use of body worn cameras (BWC) also called as body cams or cop cams. These cop cams serve as a powerful tool to document evidences, prevent misconduct and false acquisitions of abuse by public against police officers as well as a check on abuse of power by law enforcement officers or police officers thus aid in promoting the accountability, transparency in public interactions resulting in good behavior of the community. Despite of the above stated benefits associated with the use of body worn cameras, several questions and concerns are raising

If I was involved in a domestic situation and I was the victim I would want the scene to be videoed because I know the evidence would help me in court and it would show that the officers have done their job correctly. If I was the offender I would not want the scene videoed because I would not want the tape to go to court to incriminate

Crime has always been a shadow upon societies image, these learned behaviors can be seen in all shapes and sizes, in the cities, in the streets and even in homes. The media has controlled the image of what is perceived as crime. But what truly stalks the streets at night, is it the sadistic men who care so little about human dignity they travel from coast to coast sexually assaulting women?

In this current generation, technology is steadily becoming a major asset to our future in a wide range of areas, and has been embedded in our lives currently to the point of being close to a necessity. In Criminal Justice, the use of technology has proven to be of tremendous help in many areas of the field. The incorporation of the computer systems in criminal justice tremendously has improved the general communication between agencies as the new methods of transferring information among departments. In addition, it has become much more resourceful and efficient in that it is much simpler to acquire the data at a more rapid rate, hence, speeding up the time it takes to prevent or solve crimes. The intent of this paper is to deliver an

In the second part of the following essay I will be nominating one source of evidence that is present at the scene of a scenario. I will be discussing in my own words how Police should collate, handle and analyse the piece of evidence in a Criminal Investigation. In doing this I will be using relevant crime scene powers, NSWPF operational guidance and making reference to the Horswell (2004) reading.