Question

Exercise 3. INSTRUCTIONS: The following paragraph describes an incident that an officer might encounter while on patrol. Using the information in the paragraph, list the facts that might be important in a crime report. Not all of the information con- tained in the paragraph is necessary for a crime report. List only the facts that are necessary for a report. While on patrol an officer, working day watch at seven o’clock in the morn- ing, is dispatched to a theft report at the reporting parties’ residence. He arrives and Dave O’Neal tells them that he left his car parked on the street. It was parked overnight after he returned from a party. He always locks the car, a red BMW with Tennessee license plates. He had been drinking at the party and left his laptop com- puter on the front seat. When he awoke he watched several football games before he tried to find his laptop. He remembered he left it in his car. Later in the day he went to his car and discovered that someone had taken his computer. The driver’s window was shattered and a small chip of porcelain laid on the ground next to the window. A crime scene investigator was called in to investigate.

2. INSTRUCTIONS: Using the elements from Exercise 3, create a detailed narrative for a crime report. Make sure you develop the report using some of the ideas and guidelines discussed in this and previous chapters.

Answer 1

Fact: A laptop has been stolen from the car

Events in order:

• The laptop was in the car
• He was in the party.
• The key was with him.
• He drank in the party
• He saw some football matches
• Then he remembered the laptop
• He reminded the laptop in the day
• He remembered that the laptop was in the car
• He went and found that the driver's window was broken.
• The laptop was missing
• Only a small chip of porcelain was laid on the ground.