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Article: Blood spatter interpretation at crime and accident scenes: a basic approach.(Focus on Forensics)
- Article from:
- The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
- Author:
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Many new technologies can help law enforcement personnel solve crimes and apprehend offenders. While specialists in these fields must keep abreast of new developments, law enforcement personnel do not have to become experts to take advantage of the innovations or to apply the scientific methods. For example, once, albeit a long time ago, authorities often ignored fingerprint evidence at crime scenes because they either did not understand its value or did not have skilled personnel to process it. As specialists became available, however, law enforcement agencies began collecting the evidence. Today, it would prove a misfeasance for an officer or crime scene technician to ...