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Article: Criminal investigative failures: avoiding the pitfalls.
- Article from:
- The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
- Author:
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As one of the most commonly depicted characters in novels, films, and television shows, the police detective solves complex criminal investigations through deductive skills, high-tech forensics, specialized computer programs, hard work, and luck. In these fictional accounts, good wins, evil loses, and justice triumphs. But, in the real world, investigations do not always turn out that way. Sometimes, the case stays open, the criminal remains at large, and justice is denied.
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Failures in the criminal investigative process can have serious consequences. Unsolved crimes, unsuccessful prosecutions, unpunished offenders, and wrongful ...