Talk:Joseph Kappen

Police initially convicted wrong men re Lynette White
It should be routinely stated that completely innocent men were initially convicted. The fact that Wikipedia usually doesn't do it in case like this article display the "Patton 360/The Bill" nature of thinking (by police and by osmosis Wikipedia writers).

It is countered by this abstract concept - that fingerprints and DNA etc don't make the police get it right - they stop the police from getting it wrong - and those 2 concepts ARE different.

i.e. all police assertions made in court cases based on one set of evidence should always be vindicated by later evidence developments - the previous evidence method is PROVED bogus or fallible otherwise.

Psychological Profiling is probably the best known example of that - later DNA evidence shows about a 50/50 success rate with it - so no better than tossing a coin.

(e.g. I've long argued for a Wikipedia article list of crime cases where Psychological Profilers swore blind to police and courts etc that is was person A who was then convicted when it later turned out it was person B proved by later DNA etc - as with Colin Stagg and Richard Jewel etc - how about it Wikipedia?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.210.174 (talk) 14:28, 13 May 2023 (UTC)