Independent Study 1

For my first independent study I attended an R.O.P. class at the Forensic Science Acaddemy. All my hours have already been turned in along with my service learning.
Literal/Interpretive:
I Isamar did my 30 hours at the Forensic science Academy. After learning the techniques to properly document a crime scene we were put into many simulations. All the simulations are time consuming. We would arrive at the simulated scene in the morning. And start the whole process. As a group we were given a crime scene and we initially have to do a walk through. The first walk through is just an overlook. We don't touch anything, we just look. The next walk through is going in different ways to see another evidence that we have missed. Once we did that walk through we would have a set path and have to stick to that. After that walk through we would have to do another walk through but this time to document the scene. We would draw where the evidence was and where the body lies. Once the group got the documentation down pictures had to be taken. These pictures can be pretty tricky sometimes. The first set are an overview of the scene, Then we would put the placards on the evidence and take pictures of all the individual pieces of evidence and the projectiles, and the body. Once all the pictures were taken we had to dust and lift the evidence, so we would dust the weapons and go through every bullet casing and document the type it was. When that was done, we would collect all the evidence in separate bags. Then we would call the "coroner" and get updates from him. Once we were done with the scene the group would get together and discuss all the facts and come up with a possible time of death, and recreate the scene. The next day, we would have a simulated"court" and talk about everything that went on in the scene and give the facts and tell everyone about the investigation. We would repeat these simulations many times.


Applied:
Everything that we learned in class about projectiles and bullet casing and dusting we would go outside and apply all our knowledge into the simulation. We would need to tell the difference between real potential evidence and real evidence that would help the investigation. Once we were in the field we did everything on our own to solve the crime. When we would not do simulations we were shown actual crime scene photos and we would take our knowledge and talk about the picture and give facts about it. Like, he was a male Latino. He has skin slippage and marbling going on.