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1 Evolution of Crime Investigations and Policing Anthony Sherfield American Military University CMRJ306 Michael Beshears 22 January 2023

2 Solving crimes depends on the efficacy of criminal investigations. Understanding their evolution provides a framework for the significance of improving techniques and skills. Definitively, criminal investigations employ critical analytical skills, developed and understood for constant and consistent engagement. According to researchers, the use of criminal investigations in solving crimes dates back to 1795 BC, during the ancient kings' era. Comparatively, the application of these skills underwent significant changes over time since the eighteenth century. Criminal investigations continue to advance, especially with the invention of technology. Changes identified show differences in the investigators' responses, the crime scene analysis, and the evidence collection. However, understanding the basis of criminal investigations requires studying how policing and crime developed. The changes in crime and the police force over time necessitate the modernization of investigative techniques and skills, essential to match the innovative and inventive methods that criminals employ in committing old and new crimes. Sir Robert Peel is the creator of modern policing from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century. Consequently, the newly created police force initiated changes in the perspective and prosecution of crimes. Sir Peel’s creation was the London Metropolitan Police Force, in conjunction with the foundational nine policing principles (John & Gurav, 2021). Currently, the principles undergo an amendment to accommodate changes in the evolution of crime solving. The police officers' tasks were to respond, mitigate and prevent crimes by adopting a military ranking system that ensured progression in the hierarchy. Retrospectively, the American police forces simulated the creation of Sir Peel in their principles and policies. Nevertheless, in America, the police ensured the safety of communities alongside crime control and prevention. Following the establishment of the police force in the nineteenth

3 century, the United States created a bureau of investigations in 1908, named the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) (Oliver, 2019). The primary mandate of the FBI was the investigation of federal law violations. Subsequently, the FBI operations triggered the policing separation in the state and federal status. Despite establishing the United States marshals in the late eighteenth century, the team was known as law enforcement officers and did not bear investigative titles. Crime categorizes into six main groups: Organized dealing with gangs, visible where there are identifiable victims; political dealing with espionage and terrorism, victimless such as drug trafficking, cybercrimes involving computer and internet hacking; and occupational involving fraud. During the earlier centuries before policing, the responsibility of crime and its solutions lay in the church in the belief that crime was the disobedience connected to religion and malice in property ownership. Therefore, affiliation to a specific religion gave its adherents security since the church defended them to the extent of using force. Prior to the creation of the forces and modern policing techniques, governors in states authorized individuals to apprehend and arrest criminals. These individuals, referred to as bounty hunters, tracked the suspected individuals and presented them to court for prosecution. The perpetrators accused of violent crimes mainly had committed kidnapping, rape, murder, or robbery. Cybercrimes and occupational crimes were yet to categorize into groups of crime in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries. Agencies and the public began to recognize occupational crimes after their definition by Edwin Hardin Sutherland in 1930 (Gottschalk & Gottschalk. 2020). His book describing these crimes brought relevance as it targeted corporations and organizations, citing them as professional thieves. The recognition of cybercrimes occurred when hacking a telegraphing

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4 machine by two perpetrators led to the theft of monetary market data. However, today Cybercrime differs, and succumbing to it is simple. Most individuals have tech connectivity through PCs, workstations, cellphones, tablets, and web-based entertainment. Consequently, identity theft bears a large market for crooks, particularly managing older citizens. Many individuals of cybercrimes and data fraud are fooled into surrendering their data because of the impatience exercise in the current generation. Numerous people succumb to pyramid schemes in light of a need for cash and a guarantee to get it now. These violations have been a significant explanation for investigations on technology innovations and critical analytical reasoning concerning specific wrongdoings. Criminal investigations before innovation were standard. The design was to accumulate proof as expected and follow hints that could lead to the identification of the culprit. Fingerprinting was conducted manually on paper, set in a document for viewing and contrasting in incase of different violations in the future. Consequently, the process slowed the course of investigations and caused many slip-ups, including and not restricted to unjustified detainment, lost proof, and misidentification of suspects. Without innovation, many specialists needed to depend entirely on their abilities and preparation to keep up with the crime location, gather the proof, compose the reports, and hand them over to prosecutors. Contingent upon the wrongdoing, it required some investment because a specialist would need to visit a scene a few times in case of missing clarifications or to assume a few subtleties were absent in the notes taken on the scene. Investigators were entrusted with answering the most severe and complex violations that could require months or longer durations to settle. The specialist's occupation was to get and protect the crime location and guarantee that all proof was gathered and handled. Similarly, it was their responsibility to guarantee that a legitimate chain of guardianship for proof

5 was laid out to prevent proof from being altered or obliterated. The precedence of innovation had the proof of the crime, crime location photographs, and fingerprints/DNA protected in boxes and cabinets. Most documents were found in a storeroom or distribution center, which only authorized personnel could access. Moreover, investigators needed more correspondence when answering reports on crimes in the field. Until the invention of 2-way radios, it was challenging for police to speak with one another in the field. Observations and facts were recorded on paper and moved back to headquarters or the regional office (John &Gurav, 2021). Numerous agents in earlier hundreds of years conducted crime investigations void of protective wear. Additionally, the design of the investigations in processing the crime scene led to its contamination by the officers' fingerprints and DNA on other occasions. Protective gear is a significant piece of criminal investigations, from defensive/plastic gloves to eyeglasses, face masks, and shoe covers. In contrast, an investigation is ongoing at the location of the crime. It assists investigative agents in guaranteeing that the crime location stays protected and uncontaminated (Phillip et al, 2022). Caution issued in the use of gloves is frequent changes during handling of different items and areas in the location to avoid contaminating the evidence samples, especially in a multi-perpetrator or victim scene. Alongside protective gear that has aided the development of criminal investigations by reducing contamination in crime locations, technological innovation has been the most persuasive tool in pushing these investigations to a higher level and proceeding to make the cycle more proficient and steady. Innovation since the improvement of the police agencies and practices resulted in easier reporting and tracking of crimes.

6 Moreover, it helps crime investigation specialists to connect perpetrators to various violations through fingerprint matches and DNA collection techniques. Since the 1900s, numerous progressions have been made to aid criminal investigations. For instance, Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tracks, reports, and answers call of jurisdictional crime. Combined with the investigators’ perspective and knowledge, it improves the investigations and assists law enforcement organizations with settling on better choices about detainment, arraignment, and sentencing. Numerous data sets were utilized in the twenty-first century that were unavailable in earlier hundreds of years. Latent prints are part of the recently settled and characterized Biometric analysis by the FBI. The Combined DNA File Framework (CODIS) is a database allowing various labs and organizations to share and contrast DNA profiles in connection to crimes of violent nature (Oliver, 2019). Similarly, the federal DNA Data set, in conjunction with the CODIS, helps to distinguish DNA markers from blood tests of indicted lawbreakers and people with forthcoming administrative charges. Most law enforcement agencies currently utilize geographical information systems, global positioning systems, and high-level cameras to aid crime location investigation and countering crime. Because of the recently evolved data sets, data can be shared and traded between organizations without any deferrals. This considers LE, specialists, and investigators to all the more likely interface occasions and individuals. Fingerprinting innovation includes picture improvement programming that can make fingerprints very understood and simple to break down. Cybercrimes include offenses over the web or utilizing a PC or other technological gadgets. These wrongdoings can incorporate PC or organization hacking, copyright encroachment, digital following, DDoS assaults, Blackmail, Misrepresentation, Fraud, online

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7 hunters, individual information breaks, and the utilization of denied/unlawful substances (Phillip et al, 2022). Because these wrongdoings not being physical and not being restricted in that frame of mind of geology, agents have needed to track down new and imaginative ways of chasing after and capturing the people disregarding these violations. Because of the fast headway of cybercrimes and the remarkable ascent of innovation, LE organizations are also vigorously on general society to help by protecting their data whenever the situation allows, watching out for dubious sites, and never sending data cr cash to obscure sources. Criminal investigations concerning cybercrimes need to keep developing with the extension and advancement of new and quicker innovations. In spite of the fact that innovation is propelling, LE organizations and Specialists should only partially depend on innovation to forestall, recognize, or discourage violations. Digital violations resulted in associations among nations compared to other categories of crime. An individual might live in the United States but falls victim to Cybercrime perpetrated by somebody in Britain, India, or some other country. Mitigating it required fostering a norm on the most proficient method to reduce the occurrence of these cybercrimes (Malik &Choudhury. 2019). The progression of programs and data sets made transferring data from one organization to the next faster and more effective. There are numerous data sets used to follow worldwide lawbreakers that help investigators in arresting the perpetrators. Interpol is the entire organization aiding the global cybercrime pursuit. As per Interpol, complex criminal organizations work all through the world. These organizations can not exclusively be utilized to pursue people, yet they can be utilized to arrange assaults on various nations. Investigators should understand what signs, catchphrases, and associations to watch while directing counterintelligence and reconnaissance.

8 Since the 1700s, there have been numerous progressions and changes in handling criminal investigations, the speed at which they are finished, and the geology districts in which they should be possible. Innovation has been the most incredible calculation helping with these investigations and guaranteeing that law enforcers stay updated. Changes have been made to how investigations have been finished, from not wearing protective gear to trading out gloves while contacting different things or bits of proof in a crime location. Prior to present-day policing and before offices were made, the selected men to examine wrongdoings would pursue the culprit with no genuine help or help. They were fundamentally regular people pursuing different regular people in light of specialists given by the legislatures at that point. Presently, numerous specialists have sworn officials of a LE organization and have made a vow to safeguard the casualties and the country from unfamiliar and homegrown lawbreakers. Criminal Investigations have become more productive and quicker, and one really might express more security because of the fast by which a crime location can be caught and wrapped up without leaving the LE officials on the scene uncovered for a long time. Criminal investigations are as yet creating, and organizations are endeavoring to stay aware of innovation and the headway of the crook mind. There are consistent approach changes, innovation overhauls, and actual preparation to stay aware of the interest that wrongdoing has presented.

9 References Gottschalk, P., & Gottschalk, P. (2020). White-collar crime (pp. 93-127). Springer International Publishing. John, S., & Gurav, V. (2021). Policing for Social Change: Tracing the Historical Evolution of Policing and the Role of Police in Society. Issue 4 Int'l JL Mgmt. & Human. , 4 , 200. Malik, J. K., & Choudhury, S. (2019). A Brief review on Cyber Crime-Growth and Evolution. Pramana Research Journal , 9 (3), 242. Phillips, K., Davidson, J. C., Farr, R. R., Burkhardt, C., Caneppele, S., & Aiken, M. P. (2022). Conceptualizing Cybercrime: Definitions, Typologies and Taxonomies. Forensic Sciences , 2 (2), 379-398. Oliver, W. M. (2019). The Birth of the FBI: Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Fight Over America's Premier Law Enforcement Agency . Rowman & Littlefield.

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