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I had no idea the prosecutors and investigators used instinct, intuition and feelings to solve crimes in any of the British Commonwealth countries. It sounds like the law that is practiced in Australia no longer has anything in common with its origins.
I am not aware of there being any criminal investigators posting on this thread. I'd like to hear more about the use of intuition, instinct and feelings as an investigative tool in criminal offences after these investigators have been verified.
Aren't all search warrants based on existing evidence that points to the strong probability that more evidence will be discovered in specific locations? Don't prosecutors present arguments to obtain search warrants?
I don't know how criminal investigators work because I have never been one.
However, I have often been told I must have some sort of instinct or inborn knack with dogs. And I know that is absolutely not true. I did not grow up with dogs, although I wanted one badly. When I left home, I started buying dog training books to get ready for a dog of my own.
Tangential observation: And that dog found me. I've since discovered that if there is anything supernatural about dogs, it is that the instant I decide "yes, it's time to get another dog" I am suddenly deluged with dogs. I've owned 14, including 4 AKC champions, and only paid for the first one. The rest were gifts.
Anyway, I never stopped reading books, going to seminars and looking everywhere I went for people who would be willing to teach me about dogs. At one point, I drove over 1000 miles each way every other month to stay with a particular instructor who was incredibly gifted. I'd take all her classes for a week and do lessons with her every day for a week.
Nothing, absolutely nothing I do with dogs is due to instinct or knack. It is all learned. I get frustrated when students try to weasel out of trying by saying "well, it's easy for you, you have such an instinct for dogs." Oh no I don't! I learned it and so can they (and they do).
It's like telling someone who has done close to 30 years of full immersion in a second language that they speak the second language so well, they must have an instinct for language. Not necessarily so, any normal human being can learn to speak another language if they spend 30 years fully immersed in it. No woo-woo explanations needed.
Sure, after 30 years, I can figure out the most common problems with dogs in a few questions. Part of what 30 years has taught me is the difference between what is common in dogs and what is unusual.
I like to think that the reason investigators go through extensive training and the police equivalent of apprenticeship is because they are learning the skills necessary to investigative work.
Call is from diff number each time, or unknown... :sheesh:
I reported one once to attorney gen and got settlement of over $300.00 for months of harassing calls for some stranger. :Banane27:
