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0 pointshattmall15d ago0 comments

Which is stupid though because obviously it's just going to be someone that looks like the person they are after. The idea with a lineup is that you have some other sort of evidence, not based on how people look, and then have them identify the person. If you used a tool to find people that look a certain way and then put that person in a line up with other "non-85%" matches it's reasonable the respondent would pick that person.

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Joker_vD15d ago· 1 in thread

> The idea with a lineup is that you have some other sort of evidence, not based on how people look, and then have them identify the person

No, that's not the idea with lineups; if that was it, you could just show one photo of a single suspect and ask "Is that them?" Which, as you know, has tremendous problems with accuracy of identifications.

hattmallOP7d ago

Yes, but that's why you use the line up. You don't just show them random people that look like what they described.

It's like, the suspect was a white guy with brown hair in a blue car, and then you get all the white guys with brown hair and blue cars that were in the area and present a line up of them with similar looking people but not having blue cars and being in the area.

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