What are the pros and cons of becoming a crime scene investigator?
2007-10-14 15:49:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
There is no such thing as CSI Detectives.
It is all Hollywood make believe.
Real Police Detectives work cases. In real life "CSI" or Crime Scene Techs are non-sworn persons who work only at the discretion of the case Detective and take photos and collect and package evidence and finger prints.
If you want to work Forensics, you will need to get a job in a police lab, there you spend all day analyzing the evidence collected by and submitted by the Crime Scene Technicians.
Neither of the later ever investigate the crime, interview witnesses or suspects, carry guns , have arrest powers or anything like the TV show.
If you want to do that, go get a job as a street cop, hump calls for 5 or 10 years and then get made Detective and work your way to Sex Crimes or Homicide.
If you want to work as a Forensic Pathologist, a Medical Examiner, that is a Doctorate Degree that would be harder to get then being a regular Medical Doctor. There you do autopsies and try to figure out not what killed them.. but eliminate what did not kill them. That job also has no contact with witnesses, suspects and has no arrest powers.
Just trying to set you straight. The TV show has caused so many, especially young people, to get a false sense of what police work is. They think they go to school and get a degree and suddenly they are working in major case squads. Ain't happening.
2007-10-15 05:19:53 · answer #1 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Crime Scene Investigators as seen on TV do not exist.
Evidence is collected on scene by sworn police officers with some special training. It is then analyzed at the lab by non sworn, unarmed scientists who do not collect evidence, interview suspects, or work on criminal cases.
2007-10-14 15:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by Citicop 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
CSI personnel are at crime scene, where they collect evidences, and then take it to the lab. But they do not arrest people unlike in tv shows.
2007-10-14 16:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by Amy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CSI the unique palms down through actuality that it has greater of the story line and character progression. even though, CSI Miami and ny are super shows, with super actors, i think as though that they are form of "customizing" it greater for the region, than the story line - if that theory is sensible.
2016-11-08 08:30:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
requires much education and very strong stomach.
Those crime scenes aren't nearly as clean as they are appear on TV and blood stinks.
2007-10-14 15:55:54 · answer #5 · answered by CFB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋