Critical Incident Trauma

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Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) are an integral part of public safety. After a crime has been committed, the police will dispatch a crime scene investigator to the scene of the crime, and they will collect the evidence and send it all to a lab to be processed. CSIs work long hours, as processing a crime scene can take hours or even days. CSIs encounter numerous problems as they enter the field. Main issues that CSIs encounter on a day-to-day basis include the lack of funding and short staff and this will then lead to another issue, overworked employees. This can lead to issues in the mental and physical well-being of CSIs. One final issue is the contamination of crime scenes, which leads to unsolved or long cases. Methods I found my first …show more content…
This was a very broad way to search for articles, but I wanted to get an idea of what NC Live would provide as to what the system believed were issues in CSI work. This source is valuable because even though it is from 2002, a lack of funding and short staff is a current issue public safety officials face. My second source, “Critical-Incident Trauma and Crime Scene Investigation: A Review of Police Organizational Challenges and Interventions,” was found on NC Live by searching for crime scene investigator trauma. After finding my first source, I got an idea of more specific terms to search up in the database that can help me find better sources. This source is valuable because the whole article focuses on how critical incident trauma can affect CSIs. CSI work is very demanding, depending on the type of crime committed. For example, homicides take hours or even days to process, while a car break-in could take only a couple of hours. CSIs work long hours, which affects them physically and mentally, and on top of that, they encounter some of the worst things that could humanly be …show more content…
Personally, I believe the most important issue is the lack of funding and short staff. Discussion The lack of funding and short staff is the most significant problem because just like all the other issues, it can be avoidable, but the only way that this issue can be resolved is through more funding from the state. There are cases already in which evidence collected takes almost double the time for the evidence to be processed. As stated in the article, some labs in the state no longer process certain evidence, “.the state crime lab no longer does hair comparisons” (Greene, 2002). This means that evidence that cannot be sent to the crime lab must be sent to the FBI. “The FBI also has a backlog of cases.evidence could take three to five months to process” (Greene, 2002). The state budget cuts will cause almost 20 out of 50 law enforcement officials to be cut from the department. Crime scene evidence processing is a basic state provided service and with the lack of CSIs cases will take more time to be solved and for victims to receive
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