The actual transcripts of the call showed that the person who phoned
in did NOT identify anyone by race.
On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:
There's an interesting essay on the Gates-Crowley mess on the
Associated
Press website by Jesse Washington titled, " Analysis: What they saw
during the Gates arrest".
According to Crowley's police report, the neighbour who called the
police
told Crawley on the sidewalk outside Gates' house that "she
observed what
appeared to be two black men with backpacks on the porch ... her
suspicions were aroused when she observed one of the men wedging his
shoulder into the door".
What Crawley says about this I find striking in this day and age
when I
would expect police to be educated in one of the strongest findings of
psychological forensic research.
"Witnesses are inherently reliable," he said later. "She told me
what she
saw."
Would the outcome of this unfortunate encounter have been different if
Crowley had known that this belief is not true, that eyewitness
testimony
is inherently unreliable?
http://tinyurl.com/n7lunt
Stephen
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