4 ms·
Good investigators withhold details about a crime from the public mostly to filter out false confessions. This speaks to the fact that false confessions are com
by api 4y ago
Good investigators withhold details about a crime from the public mostly to filter out false confessions. This speaks to the fact that false confessions are common enough to make filtering techniques common practice.
- Eleison23 4y agoThat's not the only goal. This also reduces the effectiveness of copycat crimes, and differentiates any would-be copycats from the original. Also, it enhances the ability of authorities to receive and authenticate tips from the general public. In fact, in a high-profile case, it's common practice to deliberately plant misinformation in the form of slight immaterial errors, for many of the same purposes.
- smolder 4y agoCan you stop writing these garbage GPT comments, please? No one wants to waste time reading this shit.