Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-96.48.163.83-20150718033010/@comment-5838632-20150721142659

Tuxedo is correct, your Normal Mode high scores stay until you get a higher score in Elite Mode. The crime scene crowns are essentially just a leaderboard item and have no effect on gameplay (however a higher score DOES earn you more coins). It's really up to you whether you want to try and max your score in Normal Mode before going to Elite Mode. EM scores can easily be 200,000-300,00 points higher, but they also take longer to set as the amount of points needed to earn each star are roughly doubled (the last star alone in many scenes is ~6,000,000 points).