Analyze the following case study and determine how the evidence could be documented Three people were involved in the robbery of a local computer store – the defendant, an unknown masked accomplice who entered the store with him and the driver of an automobile that the trio used to get away. A passerby noticed the plates of that vehicle as the robbery was in progress and reported it to the police. The vehicle was later traced and discovered to have been stolen two days before the robbery. The car was recovered and the defendant’s fingerprints were found on the passenger door panel. 1.
Members of groups like this are usually family but not always and they will sometimes have a small business to disguise what they do for a living. Impact on the CJ Professional There is always a need for the criminal justice practitioner when it comes to organized crime. Organized crime has been in the United States since the prohibition era in the 1920’s. Police intelligence during the period suggested, for instance, that organized crime groups from the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Italy were forming partnerships among themselves as well as with drug merchants in Central and South America. As in the case of legitimate business, such foreign expansions resulted from the desire to engage new markets.
The narrator and his friends crawl into the restaurant, and the cops hide behind their cars, and they all aim at the building” A cop suddenly slips in some dog shit and his gun goes off. This starts a chain reaction and all the cops now starts shooting at the window. The owner of the apartment that the policemen just shot at now arrives and starts asking the cops why they are destroying her new drapes. After some questions Mary Brown, the owner of the apartment and the narrator are told to follow the policemen to Mary’s apartment. The place is completely shot up and there is no man with an automatic weapon.
To be prepared for anything is hard to do but with research and good instincts a business could be and feel safe from manmade and natural disasters. Physical security can be used to fix any gaps or problems with security. They may bring in surveillance, fences, hiring someone for the front desk, security badges for employees, guards at entrances. Anything that could prevent unwanted visitors that would be the proper type of security for the business will be considered. Computer programs like firewalls and back up programs to prevent cyber crime.
Although this might be true, reporting the crime gives the police the opportunity to figure out what areas need more patrolling. Reporting the crimes also help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to create a data base for all crimes reported within the United States. The information collected
A prosecutor must prove the person being accused committed a crime with a guilty mind beyond a reasonable doubt no matter how serious the crime is. When I think of organized crime I usually think of bank robberies because when you see them in the movies they are usually well planned out and organized. Big bank robberies usually involve a person in the inside that works in the bank to give the robbers access to the money and other valuables. At the same time the inside person acts like he or she is also the victim. When I also think of organized crime I think about the drug cartels and all the killings.
Police Officials and law enforcement officers are the eyes and the ears of we the people. A police officers role in a community is to keep the streets safe from crime and to punish those who do commit crimes. Often times they are referenced to “Civil Patrol Units.” What this means is that their duty is to keep the communities civil. If the event were to ever arise to where a shortened demand of officers came about, there would or could be potentially higher crime rates. One example would be that someone was breaking into someone’s home.
Criminological Theory: Explaining Crime Within the field of criminology, a number of theories exist that attempt to explain why some people commit crime. This essay will look at how the subcultural theories and control theories try to explain why some people commit the specific crimes of shoplifting and theft offences other than burglary. Statistics for these offences are categorised by the Home Office under the heading ‘other theft offences’, which includes “a range of offences, including shoplifting and abstraction of electricity” and does not include burglary, theft of a motor vehicle or theft from a motor vehicle (Home Office, 2011, p. 7). In the 12 months leading up to December 2010 there were 1,057,720 instances of ‘other theft offences’ recorded in the UK, a 1% increase on the previous year’s statistics (Home Office, 2011, p. 7). In the same time frame 28,818 ‘other theft offences’ were recorded in the local authority of Portsmouth, a decrease of 4.5% on the previous year (Home Office, 2011).
For example crimes like low level drug users, prostitution, shoplifters, burglary, and drug trafficking. Also there are many differences between types of crime committed and the type of offense they commit. These differences include age, race, gender, geographical, and socioeconomic status. There are many differences, but others believe that some nonviolent offenders pleaded out on nonviolent charges but previously did a violent crime at the time when they were arrested or in previous arrests. Non violent offenders today are taking up most populations in the U.S prisons today.
Police barricades and guards can help with securing the scene as well this is a good way to monitor the area to make sure no unwanted people get through and cause loss of evidence. This will include officers that are not involved in the case, neighbors, family of victim. Securing the crime scene must be done in a timely manner and all persons entering the scene should be recorded and times of the entry should be taken as well. Before anyone can enter the scene the responding officer must first establish a walk way to enter to ensure that no evidence is being touched and out of the way before walking into the scene, this will include investigators or medical examiners that need to get to any victims that may be injured. Once the crime scene has been blocked off and secured the investigators will process the area.