🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 5 days agoAnon creates a mysterysh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square118linkfedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down115
arrow-up1552arrow-down1imageAnon creates a mysterysh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 5 days agomessage-square118linkfedilink
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·4 days agoGasp! American cop apologia media had been lying to me?
minus-squarecynar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days agoApparently CSI had lawyers on both sides cursing it 20+ years ago (when I did a uni module on forensics). Juries expected concise, absolute results. Instead they get probabilities, maybes, and shades of grey. I dread to think what it is like now.
minus-squareBlaestEgnen@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoSo juries could be like, 85% likelihood. Seen on cameras in the interval, witnesses claims they carried weapons. But the guy is white. Innocent. 20% likelihood, but the man is black. Straight to Gulag
Gasp! American cop apologia media had been lying to me?
Apparently CSI had lawyers on both sides cursing it 20+ years ago (when I did a uni module on forensics). Juries expected concise, absolute results. Instead they get probabilities, maybes, and shades of grey.
I dread to think what it is like now.
So juries could be like, 85% likelihood. Seen on cameras in the interval, witnesses claims they carried weapons. But the guy is white. Innocent.
20% likelihood, but the man is black. Straight to Gulag