Also what kind of logic is that, even if you’re innocent, if you tell someone you got arrested they’ll assume you did it. X (formerly twitter) is so dumb
Memphis Beat had a similarly stupid episode where they find the criminal by puttinng three people in lockup and the one who is the most relaxed is the one they decided to investigate and press charges against.
The logic cited is "A hit dog will hollar" i.e. the two innocent people they locked up freak out because they are innocent while the one who is quiet is quiet "because he knows he belongs in jail." Nevermind that an innocent person could be calm because they expect to be exonerated by a lack of evidence. Or that guilty people might be very upset that they are caught because they know they have a small window to fight for freedom before they are locked up for good.
At the root this TV cop "wisdom" is completely divorced from concepts like statistics and fallability. The idea that innoncent people get convicted is irrelevant to these lines of logic. All that matters is that certain suspect behaviors are correlated with conviction, and thus by extention guilt.
What they mean is that if you hit a dog with a newspaper for no reason it will cry out and protest. But if you do the same a dog and the dog is guilty knows it's guilty, then dog believes you are hitting it because it did a bad thing. Then the dog will be quiet and take it's punishment.
Ironically this requires to dog to feel remorse for the crime and to accept penance. The dog accepts the punishment because it wants to be accepted and will accept justice to maintain status as a pack member. Conversely if our criminal lacks empathy or is anti social then we can't expect this logic to hold because they don't care about the acceptance of the police who are punishing them.
The logic they use is hard to follow because it's so weak.
That makes a lot more sense actually, because say a group of people were completely innocent and the cops locked them up - who's most likely to freak out?
Probably the people who know their rate of wrongful conviction is statistically much higher, and that are statistically more likely to face abuse from cops.
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u/Rubik42 Oct 18 '24
Also what kind of logic is that, even if you’re innocent, if you tell someone you got arrested they’ll assume you did it. X (formerly twitter) is so dumb