Joe Scott Morgan
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That area where she is, and you're right, that can potentially be a point of control because you're going to remove her from that spot.
Well, what happens with that?
You know,
When we go through our daily life, we don't think about where we put our hands.
We don't think about where we step.
The same thing applies, say, for instance, to a perpetrator at a crime scene.
You just go through these motions.
You don't think about, well, what happens if I leave something here and the cops find it later, all right, because you're focused on trying to get control over a subject, for instance, in a kidnapping, right?
So, yeah, that whole area in there has potential for contamination.
They're not thinking where they're stepping.
They're not thinking where they're touching.
And it's not just, say, for instance, fingerprints are leaving behind.
It can be touch DNA.
And touch DNA also, we can have deposition of, say, sloughing skin cells that fall off of the wrist, say, the areas that aren't gloved.
Maybe they've left a hair behind.
Nancy, do you realize that in an area like that, if you don't secure it,
You don't treat it like you're going into a surgical suite as a crime scene investigator.
That stuff can be lost very, very easily because it's so incredibly fragile.
That's what it brings us back to this point of seeing security, being able to freeze things in that moment in time as best we possibly can.
So not only can we document it photographic, but we can collect it.