This question isn't designed to test how well applicants can master the real world skill of researching license plates. It's designed to see if applicants reali

This question isn't designed to test how well applicants can master the real world skill of researching license plates. It's designed to see if applicants realize that generally speaking, witness recollections are faulty, but that fact can be mitigated by piecing together a composite based on multiple recollections. Also, uniformed officers disproportionately come from uniformed officer families. One way they can give their kin a structural advantage is to design the tests to have certain recurring types of logical problems which can be relentlessly practiced. So, year after year, you'll see the same kinds of exam questions, with the details switched around. That license question or a close logical variant may have been on the test for generations.