Questionable Police Procedures in Trayvon Martin Shooting
The Sanford police had Martin's body in the morgue for thirteen hours before identifying it, when Martin's father called in a missing-person report. If they had knocked on more doors in the gated community, they would have learned that Trayvon was visiting the apartment of his father's girlfriend that evening. They also spent days trying to get his cell phone password and having a forensics expert take the phone apart. Ultimately they subpoenaed Martin's phone records, but why didn't they do that at the outset? As one commentator to the
Times wrote, maybe the Sanford PD needs to watch a few more police-procedural shows on TV so they learn a bit about investigation methods and forensics.