The CSI Effect is a plague to the CJ System.
As a police chief of your local department, what would you tell your officers to do/not do to combat this epidemic?
What information could you forward to the media?
As a Chief of Police I would tell my officers to be aware of the CSI Effect, yet ignore it. I would suggest them bypass any civilian comments by not arguing with them about how long it takes to get DNA sample results back from the lab, or how it is not necessary to take finger prints off of a door handle of a house of several inhabitants.
I would suggest my officers to be patient, and stay focused by doing their work the per departmental policies, procedures and their training and not take advise from an amateur investigator who
As a police chief of your local department, what would you tell your officers to do/not do to combat this epidemic?
What information could you forward to the media?
As a Chief of Police I would tell my officers to be aware of the CSI Effect, yet ignore it. I would suggest them bypass any civilian comments by not arguing with them about how long it takes to get DNA sample results back from the lab, or how it is not necessary to take finger prints off of a door handle of a house of several inhabitants.
I would suggest my officers to be patient, and stay focused by doing their work the per departmental policies, procedures and their training and not take advise from an amateur investigator who