Criminal Investigations

The Criminal Justice/ Investigations class  had a fun and interesting activity last week.

For the activity the students were introduced to a small crime scene in which the students had to find pieces of evidence.

Some information concerning crimes scenes are as follows:

Police actions at a crime scene fall into four categories: safety issues, preserving the crime scene, collecting evidence, and documenting the situation. There are a lot of things that are critically important must be completed in the early minutes of the crime response.

How Does Blood Spatter Help Solve A Crime?

 Blood droplets are acted upon by forces other than gravity, such as being cast off of a weapon or being sprayed from a victim.

It is possible to determine the location of a victim, the type of weapon used, and the force used in a crime by examining the shape and size of these droplets.

Today in Criminal Investigations class students in the criminal investigations class applied basic trigonometry in analyzing blood spatter to determine the location from where the blood originated in the commission of a crime of violence.