Section 6: Reports and Records

Question 1

Anything on physical paper or electronic paper can be used as a _________.

Answer 1

Record

Question 2

Police Reports, police records, DMV records, Newspaper reports, social media are all considered?

Answer 2

Reports/ Records

Question 3

Witnesses and suspects are considered ________.

Answer 3

Sources

Question 4

More traditional policing: police departments would always keep a what?

Answer 4

source of information file

Question 5

People who knew what was going on in certain areas or certain groups were willing to talk to the police.People we could go to for information even if we do not know exactly what happened on the crime. It might point us in the right direction. This refers to what?

Answer 5

Sources of information file

Question 6

Example, if we have something interesting or unique or uncommon in the MO what can be go through to potentially find a previous crime with the same MO?

Answer 6

Police records

Question 7

Example, if a woman was murdered and a dozen red roses were found on top of her body and that reminds you of a crime from ten years go you can go back and look at what to link the two crimes together?

Answer 7

Police records

Question 8

What is especially useful in things like burglaries, robberies, frauds, etc..?

Answer 8

Inventory tracking

Question 9

Any store, warehouse, or place where expensive defrauded goods can be kept will have what?

Answer 9

inventory tracking system

Question 10

Example, Blockbuster and we did inventory every three months of every single movie in the entire store. Each movie has a unique number on them so you can keep up with them. What helps with this process?

Answer 10

Inventory tracking system

Question 11

Inventory tracking an be a hug help in instances like shoplifting, fraud, and theft. True or False

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Police records
Inventory tracking 
Caller ID 
Pen Registers 
Pill Identifier 
FBI's NCIC 
Internet

Answer 12

Reports/ Records

Question 13

What used to be rare and now is built into all of our phones and makes records of who called easy to identify?

Answer 13

Caller ID

Question 14

When the victim is the one being called is it easier to get a caller ID?

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

What is like tapping a phone but you do not get the actual contents of the phone? All you get is this number called this number at this time and the call lasted this long.

Answer 15

Pen Registers

Question 16

What has a much lower fourth amendment protection?

Answer 16

Pen registers

Question 17

The contents of a cell phone are covered by the fourth amendment and you need a warrant or a warrant exception to get those. If you do not are about what people are saying and all you care about is who they are talking to you can use what?

Answer 17

Pen Registers

Question 18

Example, police pull someone over and there are prescription drugs the bottle says they are one thing but they look like opioids. By law every pill has to be different. What can be used to determine the pill?

Answer 18

pill identifier

Question 19

What has a unique shape, color, and marking combination?

Answer 19

Pills

Question 20

FBI’s NCIC stands for what?

Answer 20

National Crime Information Center

Question 21

What is a huge database of crime information that is maintained by the FBI?

Answer 21

NCIC

Question 22

What database has information on suspects information, offender info, and crime info?

Answer 22

NCIC

Question 23

What can police use to solve crimes that is readily available to anyone?

Answer 23

Internet

Question 24

Example, picture the guy with a Facebook post was from a girl that had photos taken by her phone automatically upload to Facebook the police would call that a what?

Answer 24

clue