Time to Act

Now, back to the sting. Early on, a very common question during an active investigation arose: with every new piece of information, should Susan continue gathering more data, or should she stop the process and arrest the suspects? In this case, she made an educated guess and decided to let the bulletin board stay active for a longer period of time. This allowed her to maximize the amount of information collected, increasing the chance of finding incriminating evidence. As it turned out, this was the way to go, because running an investigation, quite simply, is as much an art as it is a science. It is more than just the process of sifting through electronic data and extracting the evidence. It is also knowing which leads to follow ...

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