This week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the
\nLos Angeles Police Department (LAPD) participated in the California
\nHomicide Investigators Association (CHIA) conference in Las Vegas,
\nNevada. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nCHIA was formed in 1968 when homicide detectives from Los Angeles and
\nSan Francisco met over dinner to discuss the Zodiac Killer
\ninvestigation. Today, CHIA is the largest organization of homicide and
\ndeath investigation professionals in the United States with over 1,400
\nmembers that include law enforcement representatives from all over the
\nUnited States and Canada. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nEach year different law enforcement organizations take turns hosting
\nthe conference.\u00a0 At this year\u2019s CHIA conference, hosted by the LAPD, a
\nmultimedia exhibit called, \u201cBehind the Scenes: The LAPD Homicide
\nExperience,\u201d was created and features homicide evidence from crimes and
\ndeaths that have captured the public’s attention.\u00a0 The teaching exhibit
\nwas opened on Wednesday to the public and thousands of guests have
\nstood in lines for up to two hours to glimpse Los Angeles’s history. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nA number of the exhibits show evidence that was collected during
\nvarious well-known incidents and they were carefully designed so
\nvisitors would gain a better appreciation for the tragedy of murder and
\nthe difficult jobs law enforcement detectives have in solving often
\nvery complicated cases.\u00a0 Murder is the absolute worst thing one human
\nbeing can do to another and the displays were designed to provide a
\nunique insight into the sacrifice of victims and their families as well
\nas the emotional toll murder takes on homicide detectives and the
\nDistrict Attorneys who prosecute the cases. Homicide is by nature
\nhorrific, but the entertainment media often portrays it as sterile and
\nbenign.\u00a0 When people see the reality of murder, it becomes an
\nunthinkable act.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nBased on the feedback we have received, it is now clear that a few of
\nthe items on display have offended some crime victims\u2019 families.\u00a0 We
\nhave both been to hundreds of murder scenes in our law enforcement
\ncareer and we have consoled many family members. It was never our
\nintent to cause grief to victims of crime or their families.\u00a0 The CHIA
\nexhibit was designed to be educational and to show the public how
\nmurder cases are very carefully investigated.\u00a0 We never intended to
\ncompound the grief of murder victim\u2019s families, but unfortunately, a
\nfew items on display have been interpreted by some people as such, and
\nthat was never our intention. Our organizations strive to bring justice
\nto homicide victims not to cause sorrow to their families.<\/p>\n
Steve Cooley\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charlie Beck<\/span> This week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) participated in the California Homicide Investigators Association (CHIA) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. \u00a0 CHIA was formed in 1968 when homicide detectives from Los Angeles and San Francisco met over dinner to discuss the Zodiac Killer investigation. Today, CHIA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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