> If you've seen 100 cases of a missing girlfriend, and in 97 of those cases the boyfriend is the cause of the missing girlfriend, it is going to be very diffic

> If you've seen 100 cases of a missing girlfriend, and in 97 of those cases the boyfriend is the cause of the missing girlfriend, it is going to be very difficult to convince a cop that the boyfriend isn't the most fruitful avenue for investigation for their 101st missing girlfriend case. Yet, that is the job. If it is difficult for police to keep an open mind, then they need systems and rules in place to force them to keep an investigation broad enough to correctly handle the 3% cases where their intuition/bias is wrong. In reality, I would guess that the failure rate for "cop intuition" is much, much higher than 3%. Allowing cops to overly trust their intuition results in some very biased, racist and clasist policing. One solution, is facing real consequences when you are wrong. I think it is absolutely incredible how few consequences the bad cops in this story faced (instead of consequences, they got promotions and the city paid for the settlement with the victims. The cops didn't even get around to apologizing for years.