Police Shootings
Homicides/Suicides
Crime Scenes
Case Review
Gunshot Wounds
Impact/Entry Angle
Gunshot Distance Analysis
Shooting Reconstruction
Toolmark Identification
Firearms Testing
Ballistics calculations
Trajectory & Drag Models
Velocity, Drop, Kinetic Energy
Hunting & Firearms Safety
OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTINGS ARE NOT JUST ANOTHER CASE
They deserve special attention and handling at all levels. They have potential criminal, administrative, and civil consequences. They can also have a significant impact on the relationship between law enforcement officers and the community they serve.
Often investigated by the officer's own agency, police shootings can be rife with errors or omissions which deliberately produce a poorly documented investigation. A blameless officer might have difficulty clearing his name while a wrongful shooting goes unpunished.
I have conducted over 200 police involved shootings, justified and unjustified. It is preposterous to believe that every police shooting is unjustifed, yet not every incident is justified.
I will approach every police shooting investigation with complete and total objectivity.
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TRAINING - EDUCATION - EXPERIENCE
I have worked literally thousands of cases from top to bottom and bring with me the experience of 25+ years as member of the Massachusetts State Police followed by my current work as an independent consultant.
The correct approach to shootings is to have specialists ply their skills from beginning to end. I have conducted criminal investigations, and as a forensic ballistician went to the shooting scene, processed it, collected the evidence, attended autopsies, and conducted all the tests in the lab based on my own knowledge of the incident, and testified in the cases.
It is illogical to believe that criminalists can master ballistics work while spending time working in other areas of forensics. You simply cannot be a general contractor and master a single trade.
My forensic career is dedicated to forensic ballistics; not paint, hairs, fibers, or other areas. I do not work as a jack of all trades.
THE RESULT OF SHOOTING SCENE MISTAKES
The majority of shooting scenes are inadequately processed because general criminalists, technicians, or detectives simply do not possess the years of experience to interpret the complexities involved in gunshots. Their role is relegated to mapping and measuring, then collecting evidence that is submitted to overburdened examiners in the crime lab.
The interpretation of evidence at the scene is overlooked, evidence which should be present is not considered, intangible evidence and circumstances go unrecorded.
Later, lab examiners conduct tests having never been at the shooting scene and rely on what the investigator thinks should be analyzed. Even then, requested tests may be ignored or not conducted at all.
THE RESULT: Mistakes, wrong conclusions, failure to find the truth, inaccurate testimony.
