2007-03-21 12:10:31 · 6 answers · asked by music_chic0519 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the world does not work like CSI and other TV shows. Over 99% of forensic evidence is not collected at murder sceenes, but rather and ordinay run of the mill calls.
2007-03-21 16:22:25 · answer #1 · answered by Bill in Kansas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say most cases are drug cases, since all drug cases have to have the drugs verfied by the lab as to what the drug is and the actual weight. Also all rape cases have the rape kit sent in.
What happens, most departments don't have any labs at all, but all use a state crime lab where police take, seal and send all the evidence to be looked at.
This will be burgarly, rapes, and drug.
So when you compare that there are not that many murders compared to rapes and drug cases, I would say by pure number ( not maybe time in lab) but the majority of cases would be drug cases.
2007-03-21 22:47:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Despite what you see on television, most murder cases are solved/prosecuted based upon circumstantial evidence--ie, witnesses, confessions, motive, proximity, etc. These investigations are principally conducted by Sworn Officers. The rule of thumb for homicides is that if you don't have a perp in custody by the time the victim is put "in the ground" you are going to have a cold case. Most murders are perpetrated by someone the victim knows; therfore murders have a very high solve rate.
Forensic labs more frequently conduct analysis for sexual assault,s felonious assaults, burglary, robberies, narcotics, etc. These crimes are tougher to solve and are more dependant on forensice evidence for successful prosecution.
2007-03-21 22:23:19 · answer #3 · answered by dizattolah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say no. I'm not 100% sure about this but I think cases involving car accidents are far more common (to replicate the crash and see what happened, sometimes involving drunk driving.)
2007-03-21 19:22:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get that statistic? But my guess would be because of the amount of evidence that could be involved. Blood samples, fingerprints, hair fibers, etc.
2007-03-21 19:59:22 · answer #5 · answered by ddnguyen9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they probaly are for some reasons in case they find DNA ,blood samples, hair samples, and anything you could think of.
2007-03-22 15:59:15 · answer #6 · answered by Brittany J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋