Crime Labs

a facility dedicated to forensic analysis of criminal evidence is known as a

• crime lab

• interrogation unit

• forensic playground

• compound microscope

The oldest Crime Lab in the US is run by whom?

• LAPD (Los Angeles, CA Police Department)

• NOLAPD (New Orleans, LA Police Dept.)

• ACSCPD Anderson, SC Police Department

• ATLPD Atlanta, GA Police Deptarment

The FBI organized their lab in what year?

• 1932

• 1956

• 1985

• 2016

Select *2* rights arrested suspects have.

• the right to be advised of your constitutional rights

• the right to an attorney

• the right to your cell phone

• the right to one telephone call

"All illicit-drug seizures must be sent to a forensic laboratory for confirmatory chemical analysis before the case can be adjudicated." What does that mean?

• Drug arrests CANNOT go to trial just because the police say what they found was drugs. The lab has to prove it's drugs.

• Drug arrests CAN go to trial without a lab proving what the police confiscated was drugs.

• Drug arrests never go to trial.

• Confiscated drugs are never tested in a lab.

In 2008, the state if California began requiring what of people arrested on suspicion of felony charges?

• a DNA sample

• fingerprints

• physical body measurements

• a complete listing of their tattoos.

Which field of study is NOT part of the Physical Science Unit of a full service crime laboratory?

• archaeology

• chemistry

• physics

• geology

A letter warning of a bombing was sent to a newspaper about a week prior to the bombing. The author of the letter mixed his own ink, and made his own paper. What division of a full service crime lab would research that?

• document examination unit

• toxicology unit

• biology unit

• chemical unit

A crash on I-85 lead to the death of several people. Who's job would it be to recreate the accident, and try to figure out who caused it?

• forensic engineers

• the highway patrol officer who first arrived at the scene

• the insurance company

• the toxicology department