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How did you get where you are today professionally? Did you always want to do the job you do now? Did you just fall into it? Do you have dreams of promotion? Another profession? Talk about it!It began when I was a dancer. Oddly enough, I think that is a common beginning in this city. Maybe it's that everyone has been something else. The ( Read more... )

Alcoholism is big with law enforcement. Do you drink? Alot? Are you an alcoholic? Why? What parts of the job are connected to it? Or is it all personal? Talk about it!I used to drink. Often, though not a lot. I didn't ever think of myself as an alcoholic and I still don't. I could quit. I did. I rarely drank past my comfort point. It was something ( Read more... )

I started out in my field by helping a friend with a badge when he needed a fresh perspective. He'd come in to my work, we'd talk out the case and, more often than not, by the end of the talk he'd left with new ideas, with an avenue he hadn't seen before ( Read more... )

Personally, for the actual people I work with and the lives they live, I don't think there's much I wouldn't do for them. Shirt off my back, rides, housesit, bail them out of jail, any of it. I would be there for them on a personal level ( Read more... )

"People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care." - Martin, High Noon ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

How do things like race, gender, age, social bracket, etc change a case? What will make you handle a case differently than normal? Is there anything you're particularly sensitive to? Why? Let me begin with the politically correct answer: They shouldn't and they don't. If we're being PC then such things shouldn't have any bearing on a case. What ( Read more... )

By the book or not by the book, that is the question.I think Calleigh said it best when she noted that in the straight framework of our crime scene techniques, there is nothing but the book. It is a science and there is the law worked into that and you have no real leeway within it. Evidence must be handled a certain way, it has to be processed a ( Read more... )

Two calls from the school in less than thirty days, I suspect we're angling for a record. Who needs sleep anyway ( Read more... )