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But identifying innocent victims has already proved complicated.
"'Let's find out who this is' events frequently result in witch hunts, often incorrectly identifying innocent suspects and disrupting or ruining their lives," Mr. Martin said.
In putting together such a team of veteran prosecutors, the county D.A.'s office is joining a small but growing number of prosecutorial agencies around the country devoting resources to identifying innocent prisoners.
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A crowd-sourced witch hunt took place on Reddit, identifying innocents as suspects, and Twitter was alive with both misinformation and outrage at the mistakes.
The MPS [Met] know the type of statements they release do identify innocent people by 'context' that they themselves give," he said.
Lacey's office joins more than 15 prosecutorial agencies across the country — including Manhattan, N.Y., the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C, and a handful of district attorneys' offices in California — that are working to identify innocent prisoners.
As a general rule, eyewitness ID researchers have been most interested in determining which procedure yields superior diagnostic performance over a range in which even FAR max is low, thereby keeping the risk of falsely identifying an innocent suspect low.
However, the group demonstrated its own shortcomings by wrongly identifying an innocent Mountie Dan Johnson as the suspect from last week's sting.
Yet there are enough exceptions to insure that the polygraph will identify some innocent people as guilty and some guilty people as innocent.
Let's say you incorrectly identify an innocent person as a suspect one time in 100: you get 600,000 false positives.
It is as though, having identified an innocent person as a likely target for assault by muggers or rapists, you were to put that person in jail for protection.
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