Crime Scenes!!!

Hi! I'm here today to tell you about crime scenes. Early police officers would not worry about preserving evidence, and used their bare hands due to lack of technology. Now at major crimes, it is almost as if the scene was radioactive. Only authorized personnel are permitted after the police tape had been put up, you have to put on special white suits to keep contamination from happening.
 They have many ways to record evidence including:

• photographs
• sketches
• notes
• measurements
• (sometimes) video

Then they collect evidence: 

• fingerprints
• footprints
• weapons
• blood samples
• bodies (if any)

After all this has been collected, the police tape is removed and the press and reporters are free to do their thing. 

Another way to find the suspect is to interview witnesses. Witnesses are people who saw the crime and (may) help find the suspect.

Witnesses may be asked to:

• describe faces while the officer puts together a face from a variety of eyes, hair, mouths, etc.
• tell what they saw happen
• listen to voices to see if they match any voices they (might) have heard
• look at pictures of prime suspects and (possibly) identify real people

Over & Out!
Elise