Suspect

Canines are a great tool that is used widely across the world by both police and military. Having a K-9 as a resource can benefit the one using them greatly, this is because a “dogs nose is 40 times more powerful than a human nose” (Tyson, Peter ). With their nose being 40 times better than a humans nose they can pick up on things that humans can not, making the K-9 unit a great tool to sniff out drugs, bombs and picking up the scent of other humans. Dogs are trained at a young age to become a…

Lockerbie, Scotland. Investigators later found fragments of plastic explosives and a Toshiba laptop (Verdict in the Trial of the Lockerbie Bombing Suspect). Only two people were ever charged: Libyans Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The CIA and FBI accused both men of being Libyan Intelligence Agents. Al Megrahi was the only suspect charged with bombing of Pan Am flight 103. The biggest motive for Libya to attack flight 103 was that President Ronald Reagan began…

In a 5-4 decision the U.S. Supreme Court requires criminal suspects to invoke their right to remain silent with a statement. If a suspect remains silent or won't cooperate during a interrogation session, this is no longer enough to stop any further questioning by law enforcement officials. Warden vs Thompkins is a case that shows “how the provisions of Miranda have been chiped away at” Warden vs Thompkins involved the case of Van Chester Thompkins, who was arrested and charged with first-degree…

Lochernzing is defined as a method to strike down economic legislation under the guise of enforcing the Due Process Clause, and it has been used by the Supreme Court even before it received its name. The term Lochnerizing come from the decision of the case Lochner v. New York 1905, when the Court decided to strike down New York’s sixty-hour limit for work based off of the right to have “freedom of contract”. This is right was said by the Court to have been implicitly implied by the 14th…

victims, witnesses and suspects involved in criminal investigations. The reason why this is so useful is due to witnesses to crimes and suspects often post photographs, videos, blogs and other information about incidents that can be used as evidence or possible leads. An example would be when two people meet on an online dating site and one of them becomes a victim of an assault or an robbery. Investigators will be able to go back to that social media to obtain the suspect picture and/or…

identification "confrontations" might encourage police to abuse the identification process. (Wasberg, 2009) A “photo array” is a head-and-shoulders (mug shot) of the suspect and other mug shot pictures of people of similar age, race, and description, which a witness or victim attempts to pick the perpetrator. (Wasberg, 2009) A suspect is not present during a photo identification, only the witnesses and the police investigator are present. Therefore, photo identifications are not considered to…

investigate a case, they tend to bring people in for questioning who they seem to think may fit the description of the potential suspect. Unfortunately, regardless of how critical the questions they ask may be, most suspects always find a loop hole from admitting that they’re guilty or that they may know someone that is involved. This is when torturing comes into play and makes the suspect speak up when he can no longer take the pain of being tortured. Torturing is an underrated tool of…

stop-and-frisks if he is racially biased against the suspect he has stopped. The independent variable would be the race of the potential suspect stopped by the police, as the attitude and the amount of force used by the police will change depending on the racial characteristics of the suspect. The dependent variable could be measured by examining the UF-250 stop-and-frisk form which contains various aspects of the stop, the race of the suspect, and suspected crime, the time and location of the…

Imprisonment, which is like Kidnapping, but does not involve the suspect psychically removing the victim from the place they were found. Furthermore, the defendant must have compelled the victim to remain against his or her will or to go where he or she did not want to go. Although the confinement must be accomplished by actual physical restraint, the application of force is not essential (Schmalleger F & Hall D, p.267, 2017). The suspect can use force to restrain the victim into believing if…

In today’s day and age law enforcement officials as well as investigators walk a fine line to make certain that the felons they apprehend are prosecuted and held accountable for their actions no matter how big or small. When it comes to the variety of different crimes ethics plays a very crucial part in every case that occurs and faces trial. The two most important crimes pertaining to ethical investigations is homicide and rape. The reason why homicide and rapes cases are most important when it…