Springboard #5: Ouch! That hurt!
Most of you have been hurt before on the job. Let's hear about a memorable one... or two or a dozen injuries you've had.
When I first looked into crime scene investigation as a career, I know I had a certain image of how it would go. Maybe based on t.v. shows, or movies, or anything else you see that shows you how the job is supposedly handled. Labs and machines and going out for a few hours to a scene and then coming back and spending a week in the labs proving how it happened, who did it. I know I never counted on so many of the things I do, or what would happen to me.
I think the one that stands out most in my mind was on a scene with a rookie cop. Warrick'd gone out to get something and the kid was looking very green around the gills. I wasn't thinking anything of it, he wasn't thinking about anything but emptying his stomach and I told him to go out and get a breath of fresh air before he contaminated my crime scene. Turned out there was someone on scene.
In the end the physical damage wasn't that bad. Banged up, a couple of cuts and bruises, nothing serious. Physically. Mentally was another story. You learn to look at a crime scene a certain way and then after something like that, you look at it entirely different. It goes from just being evidence of danger past to being some place dangerous.
When I first looked into crime scene investigation as a career, I know I had a certain image of how it would go. Maybe based on t.v. shows, or movies, or anything else you see that shows you how the job is supposedly handled. Labs and machines and going out for a few hours to a scene and then coming back and spending a week in the labs proving how it happened, who did it. I know I never counted on so many of the things I do, or what would happen to me.
I think the one that stands out most in my mind was on a scene with a rookie cop. Warrick'd gone out to get something and the kid was looking very green around the gills. I wasn't thinking anything of it, he wasn't thinking about anything but emptying his stomach and I told him to go out and get a breath of fresh air before he contaminated my crime scene. Turned out there was someone on scene.
In the end the physical damage wasn't that bad. Banged up, a couple of cuts and bruises, nothing serious. Physically. Mentally was another story. You learn to look at a crime scene a certain way and then after something like that, you look at it entirely different. It goes from just being evidence of danger past to being some place dangerous.