Criminal Justice

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uh welcome to criminal justice i'm mr

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ames the instructor here

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my background is in law enforcement

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firefighting and ems i've been a police

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officer

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firefighter and emergency medical

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technician for a number of years

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been teaching at boces for five years

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now and

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this is one of the best things i've done

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in my career i love this class

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and i love the lab that we have here

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second year students in my classroom

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get to experience all the stuff that

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you're about to see in the room

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so we do a lot of hands-on activities in

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criminal justice including

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arrest techniques handcuffing

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fingerprinting

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dusting for prints lifting footprints

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tire marks

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and all sorts of things like that so as

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you as we walk around the room you're

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going to see a number of things

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the science teacher is heavily involved

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in our class so one of the

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science projects that we do here we call

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it sherlock bones

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where the students have to identify the

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the sex

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and race of a person based on uh bone

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characteristics

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we do a blood spatter lab we have a

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whole bunch of things like synthetic

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blood that we use

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the kids get to dress up in tyvek suits

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and splatter blood all over the place to

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find

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out the angle that blood came from so

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that somebody shot or stabbed

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to find out where exactly they were when

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that happened

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over here we have some various crime

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scene identification tools we've got

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black lights

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that can be used to look for

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certain bodily fluids fingerprints other

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items like that

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and obviously crime scene markers

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that we put down when we do locate

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evidence as i mentioned before

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the footprint and tire print

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identification

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so we have casting material that we use

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so

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if we have a suspected shoe that might

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have been used at a crime scene

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we would put that in in the foam and

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then pour a casting material inside of

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it

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once that dries we get a hard piece of

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casted plaster like this that can help

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us identify

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so as we as we go through the two-year

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program the first year is a lot of

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uh sitting in chairs doing

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things such as vehicle and traffic law

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penal law

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students do write some papers in the

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first year because

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writing reports is a major part of

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police work

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so all my students in the first year

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get first aid and cpr certified so we

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have a number of mannequins

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that they use we have single-use

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mouthpieces

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so that we we keep everybody safe we

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have

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practice aed devices

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a whole bunch of various medical

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equipment

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over here you see right now we've

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currently got a whole bunch of soda cans

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out here

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you'll probably notice that there are

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some

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some stuff on them so what's behind it

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is

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it's a fish tank that's been converted

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into a fingerprint lifting chamber

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so what happens is we put a substance

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inside there it's like basically super

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glue

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and it turns on and heats up and picks

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up the

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oils in the the fingers that goes on

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that are on the soda cans

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or whatever the item is that we put in

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there making it much easier for

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the students or an investigator to to

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lift the prints off of

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so we're currently getting these set up

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for remote students to send home to them

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coming around this way we have our drone

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so it's a dji drone it's the

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patrice 200 it's got a thermal imaging

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camera on it that

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detects various temperatures so

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for example if someone were lost in the

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woods or if we were looking for a

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suspect

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or at a fire scene things like that we'd

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be able to determine where they were or

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hot spots in a fire

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things like that a very very useful tool

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for

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law enforcement and fire fighting

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this is a fingerprint table we use this

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for the old-fashioned ink prints so to

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be able to roll fingerprints on here

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we start by doing this to give them the

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students an indication of how it's done

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the quote old-fashioned way

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and then if we come out into the

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classroom we have what's called a live

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scan machine

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the live scan machine is hooked up to a

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laptop and this is what most police

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agencies are using these days

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so this is a live scan scanner so what

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happens rather than the old-fashioned

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fingerprints that used to go out there

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on the ink

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the the person that's arrested would

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just simply you would roll their finger

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across the screen

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it comes up on the computer and shows

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the image on there

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digitally and instantly goes into the

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database rather than having to fax it or

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mail it out

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we also take mug shots we've got our our

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our template over here for the the

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person's height and

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we also have a signature pad so when

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they're done getting booked they can

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sign their name to the fingerprints

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the classroom is set up with

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various tables right now they're they're

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spaced out

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for social distancing and a lot of the

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time is spent in here in the first year

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but uh the students do get to do first

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uh

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hands-on activities in the first year as

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well the second year we do

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we're heavily involved in the

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competition with skillsusa

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so there's a crime scene portion and uh

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what's called criminal justice was

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just arrest techniques so students that

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choose to participate in that

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they get to go to morrisville college

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generally to do the uh the local

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competition and then those that move

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forward from there get to go to syracuse

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for three days generally in april and

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what they do is they they get to meet

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people from all over the state

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and compete in their their designated

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competition

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uh it's a lot of fun that the students

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get to have together

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um and the competition is also great

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so another thing that the students will

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get in their senior year

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is uh new york state uh security guard

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certification

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they'll get the 8 and 16 hour course so

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once they graduate school

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if they're 18 years old or upon their

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18th birthday

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they'll be able to go out and become

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certified as security guards

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at a number of locations so in a

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nutshell that's the criminal justice

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program

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so if you have any questions about the

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program

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and you'd like more information just

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reach out to your guidance counselor and

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they'll get in touch with someone up

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here

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thank you