Argentine police didn't use gloves in dead prosecutor's home

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Argentine police didn't use gloves in dead prosecutor's home
Jun 1, 6:05 PM EDT

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA
Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The lead investigator in the mysterious death of a prosecutor who had accused Argentina's president of wrongdoing came under sharp criticism Monday for a video showing police working without latex gloves where Alberto Nisman's body was found.

Ernesto Duronto, vice president of Argentina's association of forensic experts, said many irregularities are seen in the video, which was shot by federal police and obtained by Canal 13.

The video "shows how things should not be done," Duronto said, saying it was paramount for forensic investigators to preserve the cleanliness of a crime scene.

. . .

In the video, an officer is seen removing articles from Nisman's safe without gloves. Officers are also seen picking up Nisman's cellphone without gloves and cleaning the gun found at the scene with toilet paper.

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[bemildred]

1. "cleaning the gun found at the scene with toilet paper"

[Jesus Malverde]

6. It was dirty..nt

[bemildred]

7. You want the crime scene neat for when the Inspector comes. nt

[cosmicone]

2. The officers who killed him came back to investigate

so they don't have to explain their fingerprints and DNA at the crime scene!

[Wilms]

3. Bingo

or there abouts!

[Bill USA]

4. lesson: Don't mess with Iran's proxies in Argentina

[happyslug]

5. Don't assume conspiracy when Stupidity will suffice.

If you are surprised by the lack of use of latex gloves here, you should see US investigations. If you are being taped you tend to follow what is expected of you, and I would not be surprised that no gloves in standard procedure in Argentina (And I suspect it is also standard procedure in the US, for the same reason, the Camera could be used for other things other then reviewing a crime scene, but where you may use plastic gloves is limited and as such had a camera but no latex gloves)

Lead prosecutor Viviana Fein defended her investigation. She acknowledged what the video captured but said it had no impact on the case.

"The crime scene was not contaminated. It was diligently preserved," Fein told Vorterix radio statio

Sorry, sounds like incompetency not a cover-up, a cover-up would make sure there would be no tape recording of the investigation.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. If the video shows cops cleaning a gun with toilet paper,

"stupidity" and "incompetence" are insufficient.

There's something more.

[happyslug]

10. It sounds like what they had to get the number

Remember the Police wanted to trace the Gun and to do that you need the Serial number. In fact if a murder had occurred, that number is more important then any fingerprint (i.e. you can find the owner of the gun and determine from that point who had the gun at the time of the Killing).

Sorry, as another poster say, if you are going by what they show on TV as Normal, you are living in a fantasy land. It looks good on TV, but it just does NOT occur in the real world. Going without gloves and doing what you can to read a serial number off a weapon is real world police work. 99% of the time, the serial number off the weapon is more important than any fingerprint. Worse, where serial numbers ARE, there are rarely fingerprints. Serial numbers are put in places where they can be read even when holding a weapon in your hands as if to shoot it. Thus rarely are serial numbers covered by fingerprints, and when they are, they can be days or even weeks old (and depending on when the weapon was last cleans years old), as oppose to fingerprints on the pistol grip and trigger.

Even the trigger is questionable, most triggers are to small to get a print with enough "points" to show who last pulled the trigger. Thus the key is the grip, and no one touched that part of the weapon.

[dembotoz]

9. Not everyone watches our crime shows

On bones rape kits are not left untested for years either...

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. That's Some Mighty Fine Police Work There, Lou