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The primary method of DNA evidence analysis in use today

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PCR

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• To determine whether a crime has been committed • To arrest the suspect • To recover stolen property • To present the best possible case to the prosecutor • To legally obtain information and evidence to identify the responsible person

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Goals of Criminal Investigation

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Common and legitimate substance used in antiseptics

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Iodine Crystals

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Involves setting up road blocks to make it difficult to switch in-state long distance

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Jamming

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Book found to be an indicator of satanic or cult activity

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Book of Shadows

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What a bomber would combine with water in a soda bottle in order to cause a dangerous and loud explosion in about 3-7 minutes

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Dry ice

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Case which prompted the ruling that "a police officer may not seize an unarmed, non-dangerous suspect by shooting by shooting him dead

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Tennessee v Garner

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A power rapist interested in manhood assertion will normally take a trophy of the crime.

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True

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Effective Investigators are detached

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True

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The FBI's strategy used primarily to combat organized crime

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ETI - Enterprise Theory of Investigation

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The most popular choice of stolen than cloned vehicle.

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Cadillac

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Crackers, Vandals & Criminals

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3 Categories of Cyber Criminal

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When the police take someone from one location to another involuntarily, such as "bringing suspects in for questioning" without probable cause - courts have termed it to be...

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Illegal Defacto Arrest

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Inhalants Cannabis Depressants Stimulants Narcotics Hallucinogens

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Illegal Drug Classifications

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A photograph that accurately represents what it purports to represent, is properly identified, and is properly placed in the chain of evidence and secured until court presentation

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Competent Photograph

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Do not use when storing hardware evidence of computer crime and electronic storage evidence.

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Plastic bag

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The habitual child sex abuser that hates children, has sex with them, and then brutally murders them.

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Misoped

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When an adult caregiver or parent intentionally makes a child I'll to get attention

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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

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A power rapist interested in manhood assertion will normally victimize at night.

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True

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Method or style of developing latent fingerprints develops amino acids and can be speeded up with heat

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Ninhydrin method

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Commonly used date rape drugs

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MDMA GHB ROHYPNOL

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Method or style of developing latent fingerprints develops sodium chloride in the fingerprint ridges into silver chloride that appears as a red-brown print.

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Silver Nitrate Method

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In the vast majority of child abuse cases, children tell the truth to the best of their ability

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True

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The interview style which is especially effective for obtaining information from victims and witnesses who have difficulty remembering an event

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Cognitive Interview

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Method or style of developing latent fingerprints utilizing a fuming cabinet or a specially prepared fuming gun

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Iodine method

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• Is written in the past tense • Uses the first person and active voice • Is objective

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An Effective Police Report

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Photography that can help identify minute particles of evidence such as hair or fibers

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Microphotography

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Four

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The Model Arson Law divides arson into how may degrees

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What a bomber would combine with water and chlorine in a soda bottle in order to cause a dangerous explosion, capable of launching a mailbox 20 ft into the air

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Sugar

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Form of homicide resulting from extreme culpable negligence

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Involuntary Manslaughter

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Established that officers may stop and question individuals based on information received from informants.

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Adams v Williams

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Forms of homicide that include the intent to cause death.

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•Voluntary Manslaughter •2nd degree murder •1st degree murder

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Look for access "open doors" into a computer

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Port scanning

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Prohibits child pornography

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Child Protection Act of 1984

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Clandestine lab chemical commonly and legitimately used in paint thinners and solvents

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Toulene

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Sifting through mountains of available information to find data that pertains to a case

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Data mining

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Study from the early 1980's concluded that arrest was a more effective deterrent to repeat offenses of DV then advising or sending the suspect away

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The Minneapolis Experiment

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Which court case established that probation officers do not need to give the Miranda warning?

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Minnesota v Murphy

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The type of evidence which is described as "having been properly collected, identified, filed, and continuously secured" is known as

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Competent Evidence

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All officers who are present at the scene while field notes are being taken and who witness the writing and initial the note at that time may use the notes during courtroom testimony.

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True

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The following traits have been shown to be terrorist indicators

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(A) negative rhetoric (B) excessive physical training (C) anti-American literature (D) disregard for U.S. laws

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A "sudden knowing" without conscious reasoning or apparent logic

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Intuition

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In rigor mortis, maximum rigor occurs ________ hours after death and lasts for approximately _____ days.

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12 to 24 / 3

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The _____ is a comprehensive risk management framework defining critical infrastructure protection roles and responsibilities of federal, state, local, tribal and private security partners.

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NIPP

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A photograph that relates to a specific case and subject

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Material Photograph

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The courts have ruled that race can be one factor among others used in developing suspects.

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True

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The major federal law(s) or act(s) specifically directed against organized crime

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(A) Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Act (B) Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act (C) RICO Act (D) Organized Crime Control Act

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What is the name of the country's first standardized management approach unifying federal, state and local governments for incident reponse?

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NIMS

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The first use of DNA typing in a criminal case came in England, in?

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1986

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Form of telephone fraud that involves billing customers for unauthorized, misleading or deceptive charges

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Cramming

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The method which uses a protractor to measure the angle formed by two lines when plotting objects and evidence in a sketch

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Compass-point Method

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Prosecution for auto theft does not require proof that the thief intended to permanently deprive the owner of the vehicle.

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False

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The court case that established that the Miranda warning is not required for traffic violations?

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Berkemer v. McCarty

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The court case that ruled that state statutes that require individuals to identify themselves as part of an investigative stop do not violate the Fourth or Fifth Amendments

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Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Courth of Nevada, Humboldt County

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The court case that ruled that law enforcement officers do not need to advise bus passengers of their right not to cooperate during a consensual bus interdiction

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United States v. Drayton

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The percent of women murder victims that had been stalked by the person who killed them

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76%

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To have the crime of assault, evidence of specific intent to commit bodily injury MUST be present.

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True

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The type of evidence which is described as "extremely small items, such as hair or fibers"

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Trace Evidence

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The court case that established that officers may stop and question suspects when they believe they recognize them from "wanted" flyers issued by another police department

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United States v. Hensley

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The remnants of the transfer of incriminating evidence under Locard's Exchange Principle are called

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Proxy Data

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A legal tool used with urban gangs that focuses on individuals and the locations of their routine activities to restrict their activities within a specific geographic area

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Civil Gang Injunction

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Robberies committed by a lone perpetrator tend to be crimes of opportunity.

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True

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Probabilities play a large role in determining the value of evidence.

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True

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In photographing a crime scene, the initial photographs showing the crime scene should use a technique called?

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Overlapping

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Basically, a lineup identification when the suspect is in custody has the same requirements as photographic identification.

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True

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The court case that ruled that the Fourth Amendment does not require police officers to delay a search in the course of an investigation if to do so would gravely endanger their lives or the lives of others

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Mincey v. Arizona

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Make a byte-by-byte copy of everything on a hard drive

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Imaging

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When plotting objects and evidence in a sketch, the method which establishes a straight line from one fixed point to another, from which measurements are taken at right angles

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Baseline method

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CPTED and target hardening involve

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(A) altering physical characteristics of a property (B) making properties less attractive to criminals (C) changing local building codes to deter crimes (D) educating the public in what criminals look for

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The type of evidence which is described as "establishing that a crime has been committed"

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Corpus deliciti evidence

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The suggested scale for sketching a large land area in an outdoor area

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1/8" = 10'

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What type of light and/or substance should be used to detect invisible laundry marks?

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UV

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A study of 800 homicide cases found that investigators are more likely to clear a homicide if they arrive within _______________ of being notified.

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30 minutes

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Which degree of Arson would it be within the Model Arson Law if you were to attempt to burn a building or property?

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Fourth

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When preparing a case for prosecution, the investigating officer should concentrate on proving the _________________ and establishing the ____________________.

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Elements of the crime / offender's identity

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At the federal level, _________ is the lead agency for responding to acts of domestic terrorism.

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FBI

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A photograph that helps explain testimony

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Relevant photograph

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Method or style of developing latent fingerprints must only be used AFTER the iodine and ninhydrin methods

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Silver nitrate method

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When plotting objects and evidence in a sketch, the method which shows the relationship between evidence on the floors and the walls and presents them as though they were one surface

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Cross-projection method

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When a child injures themself or makes themself ill to get attention or sympathy

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Munchausen Syndrome

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A dead body usually sinks in water and remains immersed for ________ days in warm water or ________ weeks in cold water.

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8 to 10 / 2 to 3

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An example of an equivocal death

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Staged crime scene

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The withholding of ____________ evidence by investigators has been deemed to be a violation of a defendant's due process rights.

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Exculpatory

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