12d (edited) • 🧰Tools of the Trade
Most people think tools are about gear.
Veteran investigators know they’re about control.
The right tools don’t make you flashier.
They make you quieter, faster, and harder to challenge.
Here’s the truth most don’t want to admit:
• The camera doesn’t matter if you can’t explain the footage
• The software doesn’t matter if the data isn’t defensible
• The notebook doesn’t matter if the timeline falls apart
• The app doesn’t matter if you rebuild everything later
Your real tools are the systems that remove friction from the work.
A professional toolkit should do three things:
1️⃣ Capture information as it happens
2️⃣ Preserve context (time, location, sequence)
3️⃣ Produce something that survives scrutiny
Anything that requires “fixing it later” is not a tool — it’s a liability.
This week in Tools of the Trade, we’ll be breaking down:
• Field tools vs. reporting tools
• What actually holds up under questioning
• Gear that saves time vs. gear that creates work
• Why simplicity beats feature overload every time
Remember:
Amateurs collect tools.
Professionals build workflows.
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What’s one tool you thought you needed… but stopped using once you got experience?
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