Due: Monday Sept 19, 2016; 12pm
Read the following article and answer the question below
http://www.indystar.com/story/
Question: how did the officers use poor accuracy in this case?
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ReplyDeleteThe Officer displayed perceptual inaccuracy by deciding to handcuff Carl Cooper even though he did not have any relations with the actual criminal pulled up in the database.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the article, the error by the officers was actually a result of a bigger error by the people responsible for creating the database used by the officers. The article is sort of unclear, and potentially even misleading, because given the nature of the error, it is hard to tell if there was actually even a race issue involved at all. It could even be an error on the part of the man that was confronted to make it sound like a race issue. Its simply too vague to really say.
ReplyDeleteThe question is pertaining to "Perceptual Accuracy"
DeleteThe officers showed poor accuracy in this case by only trusting once source of information. The database displayed the wrong information and informed the officer using bad information. Regardless of a race issue, the officer should have checked by radioing in and confirming rather than jumping to conclusions and framing an innocent man.
ReplyDeleteI would say the officer's error occurred during the interpretation-evaluation stage of perception. Despite the preponderance of evidence that the man in question did not match any of the characteristics that the suspect for whom the warrant had been issued possessed, the officer did not readily dismiss the report as erroneous, something that the police admit is a common occurrence.
ReplyDeleteThe officer's error occurred when he simply used the wrong impression management process. He used the self-fulfilling prophecy, which is a prediction that comes true because you act on it as if it were true. The officer jumped to conclusions, while using racial profiling (which is a stereotype) to handcuff an innocent man because of his race.
ReplyDeleteAccording to this article, the officers poorly evaluated the case before acting. They relied on one source that was known for mulfuncioning over some common knowledge. The officers should have looked into the case more closely regardless of his/her race. Poor accuracy was represented in this case because the officers jumped to conclusions when they did not have enough evidence to back up their reasoning.
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