Crime scene investigators will also study the ballistics at the crime scene. Ballistics is:

a. the study of firearms, including the weapon and the flight of the bullet.
b. the identification of a person based on a sample of her or his DNA.
c. the comparison of the number of crimes cleared compared to the number of crimes committed.
d. the time that passed between the call to report the robbery and when police arrived on the scene.


a

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