Crime reports are usually among the most detailed, if not the most detailed, of police reports. These reports generally contain considerably “more information about the particular methods in which a crime was committed, the specific injuries or property damage suffered by a victim, and all the different directions an officer took to investigate the crime” (Redwine). These reports usually contain all the information needed to obtain arrest warrants for suspects, so this means that most of that information is not needed in the arrest report once the suspect is taken into custody. This form provides blank spaces for handwritten information and a series of small boxes to fill in. Most pages have hardcoded numbers. These numbers refer to each specific crime, victim, witness, suspect and piece of property involved in the crime (Redwine). They take up most of the pages and there is little where you actually have to write a lot. Most are simply entering the number
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