PSYC 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fundamental Attribution Error, Toronto Police Service, Intellectual Disability
4 Apr 2018
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Police tend to have a harder time now than ever especially because of media and the possibility to be recorded at any time. Police tasked with solving high volume of challenging crimes. 1. 9 million police reported criminal code incidents in 2016. Dark figure of crime: there is a huge amount of crime that is not detected by police. Roughly 68,773 police officers in canada in 2016. Compared to 222-237 per 100,000 in scotland, england, wales, australia and 238 per. Public expectation that crime will be solved, which puts a lot of pressure especially in the media. Toronto police end year with 36 unsolved homicides. There is a huge amount of pressure. This pressure is a risk factor for distorted investigation techniques. Sometimes there is hard evidence, a lot of activity is covered on camera, may be forensic evidence, dna, eye witness identifications. In the absence of physical evidence, they have interviews this is a powerful pull.
