What are the keys to developing a viable cover story?

What will be an ideal response?


The cover story should fit with the area and people involved with the investigation. When an officer chooses to associate him- or herself with a particular town or area, it should be one with which the officer is already familiar, in case he or she later meets someone from that area.

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Discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of the parole system?

What will be an ideal response?

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According to Clarke’s typology, assassins who have documented histories of organic psychosis are identified as ______.

a. atypical b. insane c. political d. psychopathic

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Among the limitations of photography as a method of criminal identification was NOT that ______.

a. people can look different over time b. in order to be useful, authorities needed to have a photograph of the wanted person c. it cost too much money to make photographs d. people can change their appearance

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The first visual media criminals were descendants of street gang members, often portrayed in dime novels.

a. true b. false

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