what does a Rap Sheet look like?

[matrixchick]

I have some questions about Rap Sheets....What does one look like? Does it have a photo, like a mug shot? How does it list charges and what does it say about the charges?

It's for a writing assignment. I've never actually seen a Rap Sheet except what I vaguely remember from television shows but I'd like to be accurate in my writing. LOL

Thanks for your help!

[Toeknee112]

Example:
[Intro:]

We'd like to welcome y'all to the fabulous Carolina West
I own this ************ and my name is Taa-Dow
Y'all niggaz know who I am y'all niggaz tearin up ****
But we got somethin old, and somethin new for y'all tongiht
Put your hands together for Snoop Doggy Dogg
The Dogg Pound, and the fabulous Dramatics

[Verse One: Snoop Doggy Dogg]

It's like everywhere I look, and everywhere I go
I'm hearin motherfuckers tryin to steal my flow
But it ain't no thang cause see my nigga Coolio
Put me up on the game when I step through the do'
Ya know, some of these niggaz is so deceptive
Usin my styles like a contraceptive
I hope ya get burnt, it seems ya havn't learnt
It's the nick nack patty wack, I still got the bigger sack
So put your gun away, run away, cuz i'm back (why?)
Hit em up, get em up, spit em up, now
Tell me what's goin on
It make me wanna holler, cuz my dollars come in ozones
Lone for the break-up, so take off your clothes
and quit tryin to spit at my motherfuckin hoes
Seakin of hoes, I'll get to the point
You think you got the bomb cuz I rolled you a joint
You'se a flea and i'm the big Dogg
I'll scratch you off my balls with my motherfuckin paws
Y'alls, niggaz, better recognize
And see where I'm comin from it's still East Side till I die
Why ask why? As the world keeps spinning to the D-O-Double-G-Y

[Chorus:]

It's a crazy mixed up world, it's a Doggy Dogg World
It's a Doggy Dogg World, it's a Doggy Dogg World
The Dogg's World

[Verse Two: Kurupt]

Well if you give me ten bitches then I'll **** all ten
See my homey Snoop Doggy sippin juice and gin
Don't slip, I'm fo' to set trip, to get papers
Styles vary, packin flavor like Life Savors
Ain't that somethin, talk **** and I'm dumpin
I had your whole fuckin block bumpin
Don't sweat, but check the tecnique, I'm unique like China
Ya never find the bomb-a-rama then this Nigga behind ya
So peek-a-boo, clear the way, I'm coming through
One-two, three, you can't see me
I'm a G like that strapped with hit hard tactics
A fuckin menace, usin hoes like tennis rackets
It's on again, it's on and poppin
All I see is green, so there ain't no stoppin
I wanna see some panties droppin
I'm comin from L.A., she used to chill with Dre up in Compton
(All I ever did was just use that hoe
Show her my dickies, get with these, and kick flows)
I'm dishin out blues, I'm upsetting like bad news
Cut off khakis, french braids, and house shoes
Kurupt, the name's often marked for catchin slugs
and I smoke weed for the **** of it
Ruff and rugged ****, it's unexplanitory how I gets wicked
but it's manditory that I kick it
Check it, I'm runnin hoes in 94, now must I prove it
Hoes call me Sugar Ray for the way I be stickin and movin
Prepare for a war, it's on, I'm head huntin
Hit the button, and light **** up like Red Dawn
Peep, the massicre from a verbal assassin
Murderin with rhymes packin Tec-9's for some action
You really don't know, do you, you fuckin wit a hog
You can't do me, I'm goin out looney like O-Dog

[Chorus]

[Verse Three: Daz]

Tha Dogg Pound rocks the party (all night long)
Tell when (till the early morn)
It don't stop (and uh) it don't quit (for the)
The Dogg Pound clique (to drop the cavvy Dogg ****)

Diggity Daz out of the motherfuckin cut once mo'
So grab a seat and grab your gin and juice and check out the flow
I flip flop and serve hoes with a fat ****
Till I die I'm still screamin that (bitches ain't ****)
Now i'm the mack daddy, had he, not known about
the city where I'm from, dum diddy dum
As you groove to the gangster ****
The D-O-Double-G the P-O-U-N-D, the gangsta clique
Now as the Pound break it down with the gangsta funk
I can see and I can tell that's what the **** you want
So I blaze up the chronic, so I can get high
I promise I'll smoke chronic till the day that I die

[Chorus]

[Jynkxxie]

My god T....;)

I have never seen a rap sheet. Can your local PD run one on you? That would show you the basic layout, then you could ask them what an offense would look like if you were to have any.

[Whitewolf1970]

Cool music, ToeKnee112. Teehee...he eithers referring to the rap sheet of the police's inmates or the lyric? :D

[matrixchick]

LOL. Very witty.

Ok, I suppose I had that coming. Is it not called a 'rap sheet'? I thought that is what it was called once upon a time. Is it called something different now?

thanks

[Whitewolf1970]

My god T....;)

I have never seen a rap sheet. Can your local PD run one on you? That would show you the basic layout, then you could ask them what an offense would look like if you were to have any.

I never see one either but I heard about the rap sheet, the deaf guy names Rudy Gonzalez, he has a longest rap sheet ever in my city. Now he settles, I guess he's old for now. LOL! :rolleyes:

[Whitewolf1970]

LOL. Very witty.

Ok, I suppose I had that coming. Is it not called a 'rap sheet'? I thought that is what it was called once upon a time. Is it called something different now?

thanks

Yeah, it is very witty. But it is still called a "rap sheet" but someone in the music industry like to take the words into the music. Rap sheet is the booking record which have many violations on the sheet. The longer it get, the harder it will be to get a job.

[REDDEVIL]

Toeknee u need to try DEEP COVER by Snoop

[Babysmamadrama]

Yo, you be da shizzle for rizzle, T. :D

[Zalaj]

AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaWWWWWWWWWWWW HHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..........

I'm still laughing...

A LEO with that sense of humor... Any chance you could do some seminars?

-C-

[tpd_six]

You should have known you'd get some creative answers for this one. We rarely call them "rap sheets" but rather criminal histories. In my state the ones we run don't have pictures, unless it's a face sheet from Adult Probation and Parole giving us information about a parolee living in our area. The reports we print out have a big disclaimer at the top, "this is confidential information for official use" etc. Then there is identification data- names, aliases, state ID #'s, Social Security #'s physical description, scars/tatoos, place of birth and generally addresses. Following that is just listed arrests or charges briefly with the class of charge (code number and if it is a misdemeanor or felony), arresting agency, case numbers, date, and court dispositions. At the end is probation or parole information/status.

[goldstargirl]

"rap sheets" in my department are known as a criminal history. It shows what crimes you have been convicted of. It is monitored closely by the state, it is in the DOJ database. We use it if we are going to submit to the DA for prosicution. People can't just walk up to a LEO and say, "can I get my criminal history?". Doesn't happen and quite frankly in my department I had to have special clearance before I could run them

[christrue]

Dear goldstargirl,



Nice Signature. (And better luck than mine..... !)



p.s. Don't people believe in per se innocence any more?!

[Switchback]

Criminal histories and rap sheets are 2 different things... at least according to the NCIC terminal.

The NCIC terminal interfaces we use have 2 levesl of criminal histories. One is called "criminal history" (I know! Very novel) and then there is the "Detailed Criminal History - Rap sheet." Yes, it still uses the term "rap sheet".

The rap sheet is a lot more detailed with dispositions, officer badge numbers, etc.

Also, the criminal history query can be run with name & DOB, Name and SOc, name & other numerical identifier. With the Rap Sheet query, you need an FBI number or state ID (though I have always used the FBI number). You usually end up running the criminal history to get the FBI and then use the FBI number for the rap sheet.