CJ ST 484 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Alphonse Bertillon, Fingerprint, Trace Evidence
16 Dec 2018
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Need to embrace the guardian mindset, rather than the warrior mindset. Very important/not easy to teach officers who believe police work is what is seen on tv. Officers must realize that the public- even a group of noncompliant teens- are not an enemy to be vanquished but civilians to be protected. Statistics on white drivers and black drivers and who gets cited the most. Policing lags behind society in terms of emphasis on educational attainment. Only a relatively small proportion of police officers have or are required to have a college degree. Recommendations of the president"s task force 21st century. Examination, evaluation and explanation of physical evidence in law. Identity of trace evidence, reconstructing criminal acts, and establishing a common origin of samples of evidence. First attempt at criminal identification based on theory that human beings differ from each other in the exact measurements of their bodies. Sum of these measurements yields a characteristic formula for each individual.
