ab01
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How is it that just about everyone who gets arrested for some crazy bs around there ends up looking EXACTLY like sketch number one? even a WOMAN now.
this blows my mind. mOO
Unfortunately sketches are often very unreliable. The fact that they are more often than not drawn off of peoples own fuzzy recollections often leaves them with having very general characteristics. (people generally think they have very precise recollections, but often they are inaccurate unless they are trained to retain specific things accurately). The thing that often gets forgotten is that they aren't drawn for joe social media person to recognize them and match them up with a photo of someone they saw online. They are targeted at somebody that knows the perp intimately and can recognize specific characteristics. They then call investigators and say oh crap my uncle, brother, neighbor etc looks a bit like the BG sketch and he was in that area that day. The success rate of identifying a perp based on only a sketch are minimal at best.
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