Section 1.4

Question 1

Who has one of the most important jobs in the investigation that shows up first to the crime scene?

Answer 1

patrol officers

Question 2

Who shows up to the scene and begins to gather information, catalog evidence, and follow leads?

Answer 2

Investigators and Detectives

Question 3

In reality all that CSI does it show up to the crime scene and gather the evidence. True or False

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The TV show CSI is wrong because all CSI does is show up to gather the evidence. There is someone else who analyzes the evidence and tracks down the leads. It is a team and not just one person. True or False.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

To be a good investigator you need to be ____________.

Answer 5

Knowledgeable

Question 6

A crime investigation can last years or with the trial it could be longer. This means investigators need to be _______.

Answer 6

Patient

Question 7

Investigators need to be _________. Example, sometimes just to be able to get someone one to confess.

Answer 7

Creative

Question 8

Investigators have to be willing to sit there and ask the same question over and over in different ways to determine If the person is lying or not. Investigators need to be ___________?

Answer 8

persistant

Question 9

Investigators need to have a good memory.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The table is white.

Answer 10

Matter of Fact

Question 11

The chair is blue.

Answer 11

Matter of fact

Question 12

Cookies and cream ice cream is the best ice cream. Is measurable? If not, what is it considered?

Answer 12

No

Opinion

Question 13

________ is based on facts but is not a fact itself.

Answer 13

Inferences

Question 14

The doors and the windows were locked.

Answer 14

Matter of Fact

Question 15

The man is dead and he has a gun in his hand. An inference could be what?

Answer 15

He committed suicide

Question 16

Inferences may not be true but it based on fairly obvious facts. True or False

Answer 16

True

Question 17

This man is crazy because he committed suicide.

Answer 17

Opinion

Question 18

If you are an investigator you need to be good at figuring out the difference between the fact, inference, and the opinion. True or False

Answer 18

True

Question 19

_____ should be the basis of everything.

Answer 19

Facts

Question 20

Any inferences need to be based on what?

Answer 20

Facts

Question 21

The facts that you pay attention to should not be based on the inferences you have already made. True or False

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Your ______ should never enter it, especially at trial when you are on the witness stand.

Answer 22

Opinion

Question 23

Step 1: Crime happens.

Answer 23

ok

Question 24

After crime happens

Step 2:

Answer 24

Crime is reported

Question 25

Who gets the initial call that a crime is occurring?

Answer 25

Dispatch

Question 26

The Dispatch has a very important job because they get the first beginnings of a case and they have to report everything that they learn to the officers. True or False

Answer 26

True

Question 27

After the crime is reported.

Step 3:

Answer 27

Officer arrival

Question 28

Officers are dispatched and how fast they get their depends on the severity of the crime. True or False

Answer 28

True

Question 29

If there is a mass shooting vs someone keying you car. Where are the officers going first?

Answer 29

The mass shooting

Question 30

Officer arrival is based on what system?

Answer 30

Triage

Question 31

Active shooting takes priority and then other active crimes and then serious crimes that are not active and then all other crimes. This is based on the system that officers use for arrival times.

Answer 31

Triage

Question 32

When the officer arrives at the scene they must first determine what?

Answer 32

If the crime is in progress

Question 33

The first priority after officers arrive is to do what?

Answer 33

Find the guy committing the crime if he has not already left.

Question 34

If the criminal has already left the scene the second job of the officers is to make sure that everyone is safe and help with medical issues. True or False

Answer 34

True

Question 35

If it is a murder case the job is for officers to give medical assistance and after this what do they do?

Answer 35

Crime Scene Protection

Question 36

Anyone who is in a crime scene is going to take something with them and leave something behind. Because of this the crime scene needs to be _______.

Answer 36

Protected

Question 37

What is one of the worst crime scene contaminant?

Answer 37

Officers who do not know what they are doing and do the wrong thing.

Question 38

Once the crime scene is secured what takes place?

Answer 38

Preliminary investigation

Question 39

____ ______ means in practical terms is excited or spontaneous statements made by witnesses, offenders or victims without promoting.

Answer 39

Res Gestae

Question 40

If you show up and someone is screaming “Billy Bob killed him”. This is an example of what?

Answer 40

Res Gestae statements

Question 41

A statement that was made spontaneously at or near the time of the crime is called what?

Answer 41

Res Gestae Statements

Question 42

Res Gestae statements are important because they are an exception to what?

Answer 42

Hearsay rule

Question 43

_______ _____ says that I cannot testify in court about what someone else said because it is hearsay unless it meets one of the exceptions to the rule like Res Gestae.

Answer 43

Hearsay Rule

Question 44

If the case is complicated what needs to happen?

Answer 44

The officer needs to call in backup

Question 45

What is the most common field test?

Answer 45

BAC

Question 46

A sobriety test is an example of what?

Answer 46

Field test

Question 47

If a case is major and ongoing you may want. to set up what?

Answer 47

A command center

Question 48

As an officer it is your responsibility to not tell information that you are not supposed to let out but you also need to keep a good working relationship with who?

Answer 48

The media