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Photoshopped out tattoos to show a photo-lineup representative of having covered it up with makeup seems to be the real argument made in TFA. In this light seem
by mieseratte 7y ago
Photoshopped out tattoos to show a photo-lineup representative of having covered it up with makeup seems to be the real argument made in TFA. In this light seems a bit more innocuous.
- jakelazaroff 7y agoWhy is that important? Can the witnesses not come up with the same hypothesis and picture the suspect's face without tattoos? Going further, where exactly is the line here? Could police add tattoos if they suspected the suspect had temporary ones? If the suspect had long hair and cut it before the photo was taken, would it be okay for police to add similar hair to their photo? Could they airbrush out scars/freckles/etc? Change hair color? How far should we allow the police to go to make a photo look like their suspect?
- bdcravens 7y agoThen why not portray him as being white, in case his makeup skills are that good?
- jakelazaroff 7y agoBecause the robber didn't appear white?
- bdcravens 7y agoHe also didn't appear to be tattoo-free, but we need to plan for any situation.
- jakelazaroff 7y agoHe did appear to be tattoo-free. That's the point.
- gumby 7y agoThey were trying to convict him, not free him.
- human20190310 7y agoEyewitness identification is error-prone enough without the police actively editing photos to get a match.
- appleflaxen 7y agoExcept for the fact that they also altered the overall lighting, and had no record of what the process or the final result was.