Bias in Investigations: Internal Misconduct Response Training

By Marcus Williams

Learn how to conduct fair and impartial investigations despite your biases. As an investigator, your job is to determine if the available evidence supports a finding to your evidentiary standard. You will not only learn how to do this without bias, you will grow the confidence to withstand false accusations of bias.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Williams & Co Publishing LLC
• Release date: Aug 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201767808

Marcus Williams

Marcus has written thousands of pages of law enforcement reports describing the details of cyber crimes, sexual assaults, drug trafficking, and murders during his career as a federal agent. He now uses all of that "practice" to tell stories that excite, entertain, and engage. While life doesn't always have a happy ending, there is always hope found in family, friendships, and kindness. He and his family have lived all over the world and love exploring and making friends wherever they find themselves: from California's high desert, to Sicily's historical marvels, to the beaches of the mid-Atlantic coast, to the rain soaked forests of Washington, to the base Mt Fuji, and to the majestic Rocky Mountains. The world is full of mystery and untold stories.

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Bias in Investigations

Internal Misconduct Response Training

Marcus Williams

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Copyright © 2020 by Marcus Williams

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Table of Contents

1. About the Author

Marcus Williams

2. Introduction

Conducting an Unbiased Investigation

3. Section 1

What is Bias?

4. Section 2

A Biased Investigation

5. Section 3

Now What?

6. Section 4

Theories

7. Section 5

Using Your Experience and Training

8. Section 6

Evidence Based

9. Section 7

Supporting Your Conclusion

10. Section 8

A Note for Leaders

11. Conclusion

12. Author’s Note

13. Acknowledgements

14. Other Books in the Series

About the Author

Marcus Williams

Marcus Williams began his investigative career as a private investigator.

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Marcus became a police officer with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency in 2001 in Arlington, VA and protected Pentagon employees, rescuers, and investigators after the terrorist attack of Sep 11, 2001.

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Marcus joined the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in 2002 as a Special Agent criminal investigator. He became an expert in family and sexual violence investigations and operations, to include sexual assault, sextortion, child pornography, domestic violence and Internet based crimes. Marcus was a squad leader and Supervisory Special Agent. He led efforts involving local, state, federal, international, and military jurisdictions.

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In 2017, Marcus became the Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Students as the primary investigator of sexual misconduct at Brigham Young University. He was instrumental in building policies, procedures, and processes for the Title IX Office.

Marcus served with NCIS in Twentynine Palms, CA; Sigonella, Sicily; Norfolk, VA; Everett, WA; Yokosuka, Japan; and San Diego, CA. He currently provides misconduct training, coaching, and support to