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Sharon Plotkin is a straight-shooter.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when she discusses the ethical standards of being a crime scene investigator, a job she proudly performed for more than 20 years for the North Miami Police Department, she is blunt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve been on scenes with so much cash, I couldn’t carry it if I’d wanted to,\u201d Plotkin says. \u201cAnd it’s okay because it’s not mine and I will never steal it. I have very strong ethics, very strong integrity and a lot of honor to the job and to do the right thing. So I tell students all the time that doing the right thing is not when people are looking, but when they’re not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For more than 15 years, Plotkin has been teaching CSI tactics while attempting to engrain high moral standards into the hundreds of students she has taught at the North Campus School of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her efforts were lauded this past December when she was one of nine Miami Dade College professors selected as an <\/span>Endowed Teaching Chair<\/span><\/a><\/span> for their excellence in the classroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sharon
Excelling in The Classroom: Sharon Plotkin was tabbed as the Esther T. Colliflower, R.N. Endowed Teaching Chair this past December for her excellence in the classroom. PHOTO COURTESY OF DEBORAH RODRIGUEZ \/ MDC MEDIA RELATIONS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI love teaching every day and I love the students,\u201d Plotkin said. \u201cCrime scene [work] is reactive, meaning that crime happens and I respond. Teaching is proactive, so I get to see the changes being made and I get to see good things happening.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Plotkin became a full-time professor in August of 2016 but had been working as an adjunct since 2006.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When she was an adjunct, she often worked homicide crime scene investigations in the afternoon and night and then taught a morning class at MDC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI brought a lot of real-world experience to them so that they could learn,\u201d Plotkin said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, she teaches crime scene courses in photography, documentation, reconstruction, safety and technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To get her students in the bachelor\u2019s program used to being around corpses<\/span>\u2014<\/span>something they will encounter on the job<\/span>\u2014<\/span>she takes them to the Miami-Dade County\u2019s medical examiner\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The students get up close and personal. They handle organs, bones and skulls and go to the decomposition room to see what bodies undergo during the process of death. Some medical examiners have even allowed students to assist in the removal of hearts from corpses’ chests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat caught my attention very much,\u201d said Melani Andrade, one of Plotkin\u2019s former students, who is now a North Miami Police crime scene investigator. \u201cYou get to experience autopsies literally right next to you with all the body, organs, blood and everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The job can be brutal\u2014literally. Plotkin has found a victim stuffed in a suitcase, slipped on urine at a scene, worked in areas infested with rats, snakes, cockroaches and conducted investigations on rooftops, in bodies of water and carried crime scene equipment up eight flights of stairs because the elevators stopped working.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, the job takes a physical toll on the body too. She has had two knee replacements and back surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt gets amazingly challenging,\u201d Plotkin said. \u201cI talked to all of my colleagues and they all say \u2018did you ever have a day where you left work and you didn\u2019t have something hurting you?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her experiences sound like they could be in books. So she has co-authored two books.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fourth edition of the textbook <\/span>Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span>, <\/span><\/i>published in 2017 by Pearson. She used her experience to create what she calls a \u201cfield guide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Plotkin also co-authored the second edition of <\/span>Fingerprints: Analysis and Understanding the Science<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/i>The book, published last May by<\/span> Taylor & Francis<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span>, delves into the fundamental techniques and principles of obtaining and analyzing latent fingerprint evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is currently working on a third textbook about crime scene safety and hopes to have it published by 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s the energizer bunny,\u201d said Vincent Como, who was her supervisor while serving as the criminal justice department chairperson at North Campus until he retired in September of 2020. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t stop. She has experiences that people can oftentimes only dream of, especially in our field. She is always around, meeting with students and thinking of their needs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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