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A Crime Laboratory (often shorted to simply Crime Lab), is a scientific laboratory where scientists examine evidence from a criminal case. The term "Crime Lab" has become almost synonymous with the Academy Award- winning TV drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and its two spinoffs, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY. All three of these shows showcase their city's Crime Lab in every episode. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular Alliance Atlantis/CBS police procedural television series, running since October 2000, about a team of forensic scientists. ... CSI: Miami is a spinoff of the popular CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. ... CSI: NY (working title CSI: New York) is an American police procedural television series which premiered on September 22, 2004. ...


A Crime Lab deals mostly in forensic science. A typical Crime Lab has two sets of personnel. The first is the field analysts, more specifically, Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) or Crime Scene Analysts (CSA). These are the investigators that go to crime scenes and collect evidence and process the scene. Forensics or forensic science is the application of science to questions which are of interest to the legal system. ...


The second type of personnel in a Crime Lab are the laboratory technicians. These are the people that run experiments on the evidence once it is brought to the Crime Lab. For example, they could run DNA to match it to another sample of DNA, or they could compare striations on a bullet to a test firing of a gun. Bodybuilding In bodybuilding, striations are the tiny grooves of muscle across major muscle groups characteristic of a well-developed body. ...


Many major cities have their own Crime Labs, which assist smaller surrounding police departments with investigations. Many famous Crime Labs are:

  • Las Vegas Crime Lab - under the jurisdiction of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
  • Miami-Dade Crime Lab - under the jurisdiction of the Miami-Dade Police Department
  • New York City Crime Lab - under the jurisdiction of the New York City Police Department
  • Los Angeles Crime Lab - under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Police Department
  • FBI Laboratory - under the jurisdiction of the FBI (located at FBI Headquarters; J. Edgar Hoover Building)
  • Forensic Science Training and Research Center - under the jurisdiction of the FBI (located at the FBI Academy; Quantico, Virginia)

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Oversight of crime-lab staff has often been lax (4362 words)
Crime lab officials say these are isolated incidents that don't reflect the high-quality work done by their 120 employees on thousands of cases a year, despite caseload and budget pressures.
The crime labs' habit of destroying erroneous draft reports was "chilling" and raises the possibility of wrongful convictions, she said.
Lab officials decided to review his work after Melnikoff was accused of helping wrongfully convict a Montana man of rape based on erroneous hair-analysis work he did for that state's lab in the 1980s.
SJCSO Crime Lab/Scene Technician (357 words)
Crime scene reconstruction is an important responsibility of the crime lab technician.
Crime scene reconstruction is the use of scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive reasoning and their interrelationships to gain explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime.
The Sheriff's Office detective assigned to the crime lab is available to be dispatched to crime scenes and is an integral part of the Sheriff's Office's commitment to provide experienced and professional staff to the citizens of San Juan County.
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