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<a href="scene-protocol.html" class="now">Scene Protocol</a>
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<a href="short-north.html">Short North Studies</a>
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<fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/">JACOBS / CPD</a><a href="/films/spacex-buyout/">SpaceX Buyout by Deutsche Bank: A Short Film</a><a href="/pocket-notebook.html">Patrol Pocket Notebook</a><a href="/scene-protocol.html" class="active" aria-current="page">SCENE PROTOCOL</a><a href="/short-north.html">SHORT NORTH STUDIES</a></nav></fort-nav>
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FILE NO. <strong>CPD-21-AJ-01</strong><br>
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CLASS: FIELD / TRAINING NOTE<br>
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SUBJECT: First-arriver photography — patrol, not lab
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<h1>Photograph the scene<br>like it will be read aloud.</h1>
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<p class="lede"><a href="https://4ort.xyz/entity/forensic-photography">Forensic photography</a> is a photography genre and a branch of forensic science: the art of producing an accurate reproduction of a crime scene (<a href="https://4ort.xyz/entity/forensic-photography">Wikidata Q2918100</a>). I am not a crime-scene tech. I am the first uniform on a lot of Third Shift calls in Columbus. My job with a camera is narrower and more perishable: freeze the room before EMS moves the chair, before rain takes the glass, before a well-meaning neighbor “tidies.”</p>
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<img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/16954318/pexels-photo-16954318.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="Evidence marker placed on pavement at a scene">
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<figcaption>FIG. 02 — Marker before narrative. Number first, story later. Pexels, RF. Training image, not a CPD scene.</figcaption>
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<h2>What I inherited</h2>
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<p><a href="https://4ort.xyz/entity/alphonse-bertillon">Alphonse Bertillon</a> (1853–1914), a French police officer and anthropometrist at the Prefecture of Police of Paris, is the ancestor I actually respect. He didn’t invent “taking a picture of a crime.” He invented a <em>system</em>: metric photography, standardized viewpoints, a body of measurements that could be compared later by someone who wasn’t there. He died in the 16th arrondissement in 1914. The Getty holds work under his name. I cite him because patrol officers still fail the thing he solved — we shoot what looks dramatic instead of what can be reconstructed.</p>
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<p>Sources: <a href="https://4ort.xyz/entity/alphonse-bertillon">entity: Alphonse Bertillon</a>.</p>
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<h2>Chain of custody is not a slogan</h2>
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<p>A <a href="https://4ort.xyz/entity/chain-of-custody">chain of custody</a> is a legal concept (Wikidata Q738898): documentation of how an item — or an attribute of an item — is transferred, monitored, and controlled as it moves. It is a subclass of documentation, of chronology, and of evidence. It sits next to <em>provenance</em>. A JPEG sitting in my camera roll with no note is an orphan. An orphan cannot testify.</p>
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<p>On a good night the chain for a patrol photo looks like this:</p>
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<li><strong>Create.</strong> Camera clock set to radio time before the shift. I check it against dispatch when I log on. If the clock is wrong, every later timestamp is a defense exhibit against me.</li>
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<li><strong>Label in the frame.</strong> A card, a glove wrapper, my notebook page with date / CAD / my badge — something that exists in the photograph, not only in a filename I’ll rename later.</li>
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<li><strong>Transfer.</strong> Offload to the report system before I go 10-42. Not “in the morning.” Morning is when cards get lost in cupholders.</li>
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<li><strong>Restrict.</strong> Personal phone is not a backup. Personal phone is a leak. I have seen a well-meant text become a Brady problem.</li>
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<li><strong>Account.</strong> If I delete a bad frame, I say so in the supplement: “three additional exposures discarded for motion blur; files not retained.” Silence reads as concealment.</li>
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<p>I told Fernando the same thing about a cash drawer: count it like evidence, or don’t pretend the count means anything. Different job, same chain. See also: <a href="https://4ort.xyz/entity/chain-of-custody">chain of custody</a>.</p>
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<div class="pull">If you cannot say who held the file, you do not have a file. You have a rumor with pixels.</div>
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<h2>The twelve-shot minimum I actually run</h2>
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<p>Television wants the overhead God-shot. I get a parking lot, sodium vapor, and ninety seconds before the fire crew needs the doorway. This is the sequence I can finish on a cold sidewalk on the Near East Side. It is not a lab protocol. It is a patrol floor.</p>
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<tr><th class="num">#</th><th>Shot</th><th>Why it exists</th><th>Failure mode</th></tr>
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<td>1</td>
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<td>Approach — from the direction of arrival, whole façade or lot.</td>
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<td>Establishes how I entered and what a civilian would have seen.</td>
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<td>Zooming in. You lose the mailbox, the camera, the witness’s car.</td>
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<td>2–5</td>
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<td>Four corners of the room / four sides of the vehicle. Overlap 30%.</td>
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<td>Lets someone later build a panorama without me.</td>
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<td>Standing in one spot and pivoting. Parallax lies.</td>
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<td>6</td>
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<td>Floor / ground, from waist height, looking down the long axis.</td>
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<td>Blood, glass, casings, phone. Gravity is a witness.</td>
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<td>Shooting only at eye level. Most evidence is not at eye level.</td>
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<td>7</td>
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<td>Ceiling / overhead (one frame).</td>
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<td>Spray, holes, a camera you will otherwise miss.</td>
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<td>Forgetting it. I forgot it for six months as a rookie.</td>
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<td>8–9</td>
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<td>Mid-range: object in context (door + lock; table + bottle).</td>
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<td>Connects the close-up to the room.</td>
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<td>Jumping straight to the close-up. Courts hate orphans.</td>
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<td>10</td>
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<td>Close-up with a scale in frame (dollar bill if that’s what you have).</td>
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<td>Size without a ruler is a guess.</td>
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<td>Using a coin and then not saying which coin.</td>
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<td>11</td>
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<td>Close-up without the scale.</td>
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<td>Shows the surface you just covered.</td>
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<td>Only shooting with the scale — then the scale is accused of hiding a mark.</td>
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<td>12</td>
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<td>ID slate: notebook page with CAD, date, my name, in the same light.</td>
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<td>Binds the set. Bertillon would have made me do this twice.</td>
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<td>Writing the slate later, in different light, in the car.</td>
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<p>Machine-readable copy of this table: <a href="scene-protocol.json">scene-protocol.json</a>.</p>
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<h2>What I do not photograph</h2>
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<p>Victims in states that don’t serve the report. Bystanders’ children. The inside of a wallet I already inventoried in writing. Anything I would not want read into a record at 09:00 in front of a family. The camera is not a trophy case. Le Guin wrote that the revolution begins in the imagining of a different kind of person — I’ll settle for a different kind of file.</p>
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<figcaption>FIG. 03 — Kit on asphalt. Tools are cheaper than a lost hour of scene integrity. Pexels, RF. Training image.</figcaption>
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<h2>Live grounding</h2>
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<fort-kg query="forensic photography" limit="5"><ul class="fort-kg" data-fort="kg" data-query="forensic photography"><li>forensic photography — art of producing an accurate reproduction of a crime scene</li><li>photography — art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation</li><li>history of forensic photography — aspect of history</li><li>nude photography — photographs of the naked human form for any purpose</li><li>photograph — image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface</li></ul></fort-kg>
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<h2>Related in this file</h2>
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<p>The same overlap rule is how I shoot the Short North off duty — four façades, 30% overlap, a slate with the date. See <a href="short-north.html">Short North Studies</a>. Cover: <a href="index.html">Field File 21</a>.</p>
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<h3>Neighbor — different beat, same chain</h3>
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<p>When I answered Fernando on cash-handling, I meant this page. Count it like you will have to reconstruct it. Carolyn’s retail “shed to protect the landing” is the same load-shed I run on a radio net. Different uniforms.</p>
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