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From YouTube: Inside Boulder - Crime Lab Tour
Description
Boulder Police Department Crime Lab
A
Hi
I'm
Natalie
Wood,
do
you
ever
watch
crime
investigation
shows
on
TV
and
wonder
what
really
goes
on
in
a
crime
lab.
Well
today,
we'll
answer
some
of
your
questions
as
we
tour
the
boulder
police
department's
crime
lab
with
sergeant
Cooper
Grimes
sergeant
Grimes,
thanks
for
showing
us
around
today,
you're.
A
B
We
do
have
a
lot
of
typical
days.
It
would
be
neat
to
say
that
everything's
exciting
every
day
here,
but
that's
not
say
that
there's
not
plenty
of
work
each
day
we
do
have
occasional
crimes
that
are
extremely
severe
and
you
don't
have
a
typical
day,
and
you
see
some
interesting
things,
but
in
the
lab
here,
there's
tons
of
property,
that's
processed
and
analyzed,
try
to
further
cases
what.
B
Of
the
common
evidence
that
we
see
is
fingerprint
evidence,
that's
one
of
the
biggest
things.
Still
it's
been
around
a
long
time
and
it
often
leads
to
suspects
and
cases.
We
also
do
DNA,
processing,
analyze,
blood,
spatter,
closed-circuit
television.
Footage
is
valuable.
These
days.
As
you
know,
there
are
closed
circuit
television
cameras
everywhere
around
the
city,
whether
it
be
at
residences
even
or
businesses.
So.
A
B
If
there
are
any
fingerprints
on
that,
can
they
might
dust
it,
they
might
fume
the
can
with
superglue
fumes
and
if
they
locate
a
latent
fingerprint,
they
would
then
document
that
they
may
photograph
it
lift
it
and
place
it
on
a
card
and
then
comes
the
task
of
entering
it
into
the
automated
fingerprint
identification
system
and
hoping
that
they
can
get
a
match
to
a
spect.
Okay.
A
B
Some
ways
it's
extremely
similar
in
other
ways,
it's
very
far-fetched,
a
lot
of
the
things
that
they
do
in
their
labs
are
similar
to
what
we
do,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
looking
at
closed-circuit
television
footage
looking
at
DNA
and
then
trying
to
process
that
fingerprints
as
well
now,
the
thing
that's
unrealistic
is
on
those
shows.
Often
they
just
take
what
they
found
place
it
into
a
computer
and
within
a
matter
of
moments
they
have
a
suspect
up
on
a
picture
screen
that
doesn't
happen.
A
B
Our
lab
has
a
lot
of
functionality.
We
are
able
to
do
quite
a
bit
here,
which
is
extremely
valuable.
We're
not
able
to
do
everything
being
that
we're
a
medium-sized
department
there
for
certain
things,
like
you
said,
do
need
to
go
to
the
Colorado
Bureau
of
Investigation
or
the
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation.
It
really
just
depends
on
our
capabilities.
B
As
I
said,
the
majority
we
can
take
care
of
here
take
DNA,
for
instance,
if
we
had
a
suspect
in
a
robbery
who
touched
somebody's
coat,
our
criminalists
have
the
ability
to
take
a
sample
of
that
say
by
swabbing
it
with
some
sterile
swabs.
They
can
then
send
that
to
a
lab
to
be
tested
and
to
try
to
obtain
a
DNA
profile.
However,
we
don't
currently
have
those
sorts
of
capabilities.
So
that's
the
sort
of
thing
that
we
have
to
send
out
to
an
outside
laboratory
I,
see.
A
B
It's
extremely
beneficial,
being
able
to
take
care
of
the
majority
of
evidence
here,
saves
us
immensely
on
time
in
investigating
cases
and
also
on
manpower.
If
we
didn't
have
this
lab
here,
we
would
have
to
send
almost
everything
out
to
an
outside
laboratory,
whether
it
be
CBI,
the
FBI
or
a
private
lab,
that's
costly
at
times.
It
also
takes
a
lot
of
time
and
manpower
to
get
those
items
transported
there
securely
or
to
ship
them
there.