I’m pleased to announce an exciting new feature available through Forensic Magazine^®. Starting this month, you’ll be able to access a selection of crime scene videos directly from Forensic Magazine’s web site (www.forensicmag.com). I created these videos to highlight a variety of crime scene processing techniques (see below for a brief description of each video).

By adding this section to the web site, we hope to give viewers more insight into crime scene processes and techniques. After all, written documentation is essential when you’re learning something new, but being able to see the video of a particular process and technique can really pull it all together.

Video demonstrations can also be a great tool to refine skills you already have. What I’ve found is that people tend to develop their own specific way of doing something and then stick with that method because it works pretty well. But what I’ve also found is if you watch someone else do the same task, you’re likely to discover something that makes the task much easier.

So to make this new service even more valuable for everyone, I’d like your input. I invite you to contribute your own video demonstrations to be considered for the Forensic Magazine web site. By sharing your videos, you’ll help other crime scene investigators and officers do their jobs better.