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It should be routinely stated that completely innocent men were initially convicted. The fact that Wikipedia usually doesn't do it in case like this article display the "Patton 360/The Bill" nature of thinking (by police and by osmosis Wikipedia writers).
It is countered by this abstract concept - that fingerprints and DNA etc don't make the police get it right - they stop the police from getting it wrong - and those 2 concepts ARE different.
i.e. all police assertions made in court cases based on one set of evidence should always be vindicated by later evidence developments - the previous evidence method is PROVED bogus or fallible otherwise.
Psychological Profiling is probably the best known example of that - later DNA evidence shows about a 50/50 success rate with it - so no better than tossing a coin.
(e.g. I've long argued for a Wikipedia article list of crime cases where Psychological Profilers swore blind to police and courts etc that is was person A who was then convicted when it later turned out it was person B proved by later DNA etc - as with Colin Stagg and Richard Jewel etc - how about it Wikipedia?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.210.174 (talk) 14:28, 13 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
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