It’s never been reliable. Like, unless it’s someone you know and recognize it’s worthless. Picking out of a lineup is about as fair as a carney game at the best of times if you saw a stranger commit a crime. But often the opps just have you keep talking until you vaugely reference the person they want and they call that a definitive ID.
That’s not even getting into how flawed our memories are and that the only way a human brain is like AI, is our brains hate not knowing an answer, but really doesn’t care if an answer is correct. We create and whole heatedly believe shit that never happened all the time.
Our brains just make shit up all the time, because not knowing makes us think, and thinking is hard.
So ask someone who robbed the bank, and I stead of “I don’t know” they’ll pick the person who looks like a bank robber and retroactively slide that face I to their memories and honestly believe they saw the suspect.
It’s the same as a lie detector, except not as well known.
Videos don’t tell the full story either, classic example was a video showing someone in a robbery with a gun, not shooting anyone. In reality they shot and killed someone out of frame but due to some specifics of the camera sensor and frame rate it didn’t capture them ever firing the gun
Eye witness is absolute dog shit…
It’s never been reliable. Like, unless it’s someone you know and recognize it’s worthless. Picking out of a lineup is about as fair as a carney game at the best of times if you saw a stranger commit a crime. But often the opps just have you keep talking until you vaugely reference the person they want and they call that a definitive ID.
That’s not even getting into how flawed our memories are and that the only way a human brain is like AI, is our brains hate not knowing an answer, but really doesn’t care if an answer is correct. We create and whole heatedly believe shit that never happened all the time.
Our brains just make shit up all the time, because not knowing makes us think, and thinking is hard.
So ask someone who robbed the bank, and I stead of “I don’t know” they’ll pick the person who looks like a bank robber and retroactively slide that face I to their memories and honestly believe they saw the suspect.
It’s the same as a lie detector, except not as well known.
But video corroborated by eyewitness testimony would be pretty good. Especially if they don’t know there is a video when giving their account.
Videos don’t tell the full story either, classic example was a video showing someone in a robbery with a gun, not shooting anyone. In reality they shot and killed someone out of frame but due to some specifics of the camera sensor and frame rate it didn’t capture them ever firing the gun
A good example is a photo from a while back of some celebrity shooting the middle finger.
But another picture from a different angle shows they were actually doing the ‘okay’ symbol.
I wish I could remember who it was