Criminal Investigation Department

The criminal justice system has three distinct components that make it effective and able to deliver its mandate of ensuring that justice is served to the offender and recompense is delivered to the victim. These components are Law enforcement, Adjudication, and Correction. Law enforcement begins with crime detection; usually done by the responsible authorities such as the police force or specialized agencies. They have the duty of upholding the law and the rights of the offenders, victims as…

Ethics played a major role in the case of the Kansas City police officers who plead guilty to charges resulting from a FBI sting operation. Because of unethical behavior the FBI became involved in an internal investigation involving officers who conspired to steal while serving search warrants. There were many contributing factors that influenced the behaviors in the case of the Kansas City Police Officers who were involved in the SCORE Unit corruption. The leaders initially contributed to…

uses of MIS have the potential to cause financial, economic, and in extreme cases physical and mental harm to parties that use these modernized services. In 2013, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) – a division for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), - “received 262,813 consumer complaints with an adjusted dollar loss of $781,841,611” (IC3.gov, 2014). Grave statistics such as this have led governing bodies on the federal,…

Just hours before sunrise on February 13, 2013, members of the Tuscaloosa Police Department in conjunction with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force quietly assembled on the campus of the University of Alabama. Around 3:00am doors were being simultaneously knocked down across campus by officers wearing tactical vests and toting military style assault rifles. According to Connor Sheets of al.com, 61 students were taken into custody on drug charges that cold February night. With a few exceptions,…

What in the Tractatus is Wittgenstein Talking About? Early Wittgenstein seems to suggest that sentences of natural science have meaning, without being able to give meaning to the way of which we understand those sentences. This dismisses philosophy as only a tool to help clarify claims of natural science. However, he uses philosophy to come to this realization. He makes the realization that the way he explains his own findings are in fact a violation of those findings stating, “My propositions…

educational road, and what I have accomplish, and learned. I have taken many classes where it teaches me about law, the Criminal justice system, how the court works, and the process. Being fortunate enough to learn all this at Everest College, where I did obtain my AA degree in Criminal Justice. The feedback that I was giving at this college will prepare me for law school or for my investigation job at Wells Fargo Bank. In the college I was giving the feedback that law was not going to be easy…

police department, due to several investigative procedural errors on the part of police sergeants, referred to herein as supervisors, police officers of the department have received reductions in their discipline for misconduct that would otherwise warrant a sterner punishment. These supervisors are members of the same police union as those officers that the sergeants supervise. While each supervisors had received formal training regarding police supervision upon their promotion, department…

to An Introduction to Policing textbook, solvability factors are, “factors considered in determining whether or not a case should be assigned for a follow-up investigation” (Dempsey & Forst, 2016, p.304). With this in mind, solvability factors aid whether or not there is a chance that the case can be solved, and help push the investigation to a fair conclusion (Engeling, 2013). Solvability factors usually come in the form of questions during the screening process. Some common solvability factors…

asked for as a presentation of terrorism, it must begin with a social issue as opposed to a single individual for good reasons. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) masterminds terrorism in the U.S. as either; private or overall terrorism. Terrorism is the usage of force or viciousness against persons or property encroaching upon the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, impulse or installment. In addition, its noteworthiness has been changing amid the time…

a study and found that to produce a greater number of solved crimes; agencies should adapt the Managing Criminal Investigations model. The MCI program focus on investigating crimes that have a higher probability of being solved and bypassing those crimes that are not likely to be solved. This model also relies on patrol officers conducting complete initial reports and follow up investigations to aid detectives (Dempsey & Forst, 2016). Patrol officers are required to determine if enough evidence…