"How to conduct street crimes investigations. How to perform successful gang, drug and vice operations. How to write solid search warrants and reports and how to win in court. Specific examples are given based on actual operations and investigations. It's for cops on street teams, gang units, and drug task forces and other specialized units"--

The text covers the legal authority, procedures, and latest techniques for public and private investigations of criminal, civil, and regulatory cases. Its scope includes legal and operational information on police investigative units; case management procedures; and techniques for uncovering law violations ranging from street crimes to organized and corporate crimes, including insurance fraud, terrorist acts, corruption, drug smuggling, and many more. The book introduces basic investigative principles and defines the legal authority of police, security officers, and regulatory and insurance investigators. More than 60 experts (FBI agents, detectives, law professors, security managers, and others) contributed to the text. Chapters outline stop-and-frisk and search-and-seizure laws (as well as others that must be understood to bring a case to conviction) and explain the roles of the grand jury and the investigator in court and process serving. Police procedures at the scene of the crime and afterwards, and the detective division's organization and operations are explained (including forensic and intelligence operations). Contributors suggest techniques for obtaining information from individuals (including informants) through interviews and interrogations, polygraph and media investigations, hypnosis, and genealogy. Chapters discuss investigations of specific business crimes involving computers, unions, nursing homes and other Medicaid providers, credit cards, prescription drugs, and insurance frauds. The text also describes investigations of sexual assaults, homicide, extortion, art thefts, drug operations, and hostage taking. A model case management plan, a checklist for investigative notetaking, information sources and sample contact letters, and eyewitness identification methods are included, as well as discussions of 'sting' operations, time of death determinations, investigations of environmental problems (such as chemical fires), and other specific working aids.

As a follow-up to his best-selling book Street Cop, Jacobs tackles the challenges patrol officers face when investigating "hot" street crimes. Learn how streetwise cops solve assaults, rapes, car thefts, burglaries and other felonies. Includes plenty of true stories, "street tips" and more.

Criminal Investigations & Forensic Science

Giacalone, a retired detective, describes the role of the criminal investigator, investigative strategies, and legal issues, from the perspective of the detective. He details the criminal investigative process, including how to become a detective; the criminal identification system; search and seizure; the crime scene protocol; the follow-up investigation; eyewitness identification; interview and interrogation; investigative report writing; death, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, grand larceny, theft, arson, and missing persons investigations; and trial preparation. This edition has updated court cases, additional tips, and updated investigative resources. It has new chapters on officer-involved shootings, the role of patrol officers, social media investigations, and cold case investigations; new forensic evidence techniques; references to criminal justice research and best practices; new photos and illustrations; additional boxes; law updates and changes; new techniques; new topics like DNA phenotyping, sharp and blunt force injuries, forensic crime laboratories, rape kit backlogs, the Innocence Project, NamUs 2.0, and recording of interrogations; additional questions; and ideas for research.

The Detective‘s Handbook details the vital information law enforcement officers need to know to become better detectives. Since all essential aspects of detective work cannot be covered in a single volume, the editors have selected 20 of the most critical issues detectives face in their day-to-day work and present them in separate chapters.Using a