How to be your own CSI team...

I'm obsessed with CSI. No seriously. It's a bad addiction. Something about the scenery chewing Wolfgang Peterson on the original CSI to the ham-handed technique effused by David Caruso on CSI: Miami just gets my motor running. No one on those shows looks like highly trained sophisticated scientists charged with the care of collection evidence on criminals. Maybe that's why people love the show, because it simplifies and dumbs down the process of criminal investigation. Which is the perfect segue into this cool website Nell found called Criminal Searches (http://criminalsearches.com/default.aspx)

Before you scratch your heads in wonder as to why anyone on myJambi would ever need such a site, hear me out. So the whole point of myJambi is to work within a network of trusted friends. And that should give you peace enough to commission custom-made jewelery or stationary. But what about people that would have access to the things you hold most valuable: family members & pets. Well here is where Criminal searches comes in.

You just type in the first and last name of the person you are investigating and a list of people with that name will show up. Next to their name you will see a date of birth and next to that the number of offenses they have on their record. The criminal offenses are color coded by violation: Behavioral, Business, Drug & Alcohol, Sex Related, Theft/Robbery, Violent, Traffic/Other. When you click on the details button you can see the details of each offense. You can see how they pled and wether or not they were convicted. Don't be alarmed if you put your own name in and that speeding ticket you got shows up.

Now I'm not saying that you should go all CSI on everyone on myJambi, but if you are trusting someone to walk Fido or giving them the keys to your house to clean it, you may want to know just a little bit more about them. You can never be too safe.