RAND Criminal Investigation Study

The RAND Criminal Investigation Study conducted in the 1970's resulted in that detective and investigative work was basically time consuming and wasteful. The results were that patrol officers could resolve a case and that investigators or detectives were puppets of the district attorney (Hoover, 2014). The RAND Study resulted in that a responding patrol officer could gather factual findings and solve a case, regardless of the nature or severity of it.

The RAND Study pointed out that investigative work from a detective's position is time-consuming where as a responding officer gets the call handled more quickly. The RAND Study details that it takes time for a detective to locate a victim/suspect, prepare a case file for prosecution, time spent in court, traveling that is required within the scope of an investigation, and attaching any analysis to the case file that has been finalized, not to include the disposition of that particular case (Hoover, 2014).

The RAND Study merely discontinued facts that are discovered by detectives through precise investigations and seemed to articulate that the responding officer could ascertain such important information without the assistance of a detective or a lengthy investigation being conducted. The RAND Study defined detectives as people that could put a case file together for prosecution and hand it over to the district attorney (Hoover, 2014). This theory eliminated

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