While reading chapter six in the textbook, Just the Facts: Investigative Report Writing, a couple of key concepts came up that I would like to explore further. These include the mentioning of the limiting of unsupported opinion after it explains the importance of writing a report to the proper length that the facts of the case creates, explaining why the five senses are something that anyone would be thinking about when doing a report, and then what the pros and cons are of the fill-in-the-blanks and report formats. These three things are interesting, but inhibit my full understanding of report writing. In order to be properly prepared to a write a report I would like to discuss these things further.I will briefly discuss why below.
I do not like that the limiting of unsupported opinion is mentioned in here. In what I have experienced in regard to report writing I have been told to leave opinion out of it. This includes all things opinion related. The report is to be fact based and last as long, as I mentioned above that the book touches on, as the facts of a case may warrant. Further, I do not think the mentioning of the five senses is needed in this chapter. An investigator and police officers together know that they must take in the entirety of a scene in order to fully understand what it entailed and then allow oneself to document it in a report effectively. I do not think people need to be reminded to use their sight or their smell, among the other senses, to describe a scene. I think they already know perfectly well that these will be required. Finally, I think it would be helpful to discuss what everyone likes and dislikes about the different report formats. I think it would allow us to understand them better and then allow for us to be prepared to write each one to the fullest extent.
To conclude, I enjoyed chapter 6 and I think it was beneficial to learning about the report writing aspect of law enforcement to a fuller extent in the form of arrest reports.
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