Force Science Institute is a Minnesota operation (Mankato I think) that tries to apply modern science to understanding use-of-force incidents. I feel they have a bias in favor of the police -- but to the extent that their science is valid, it actually applies to everybody in such incidents (and if its not valid, then we dont care, except to the extent that anybody believes them). Theyre one of the places that has done work on memory recall, and whether its better (in terms of accuracy of reporting) to interview participants in deadly encounters immediately or after theyve had a chance to recover some. I get an email newsletter from them with some articles that often interest me, but they arent available on the web to link to, so Im going to grab the opportunity to link to this publicly published interview. (The interview is in a specifically for-police publication, so theyre bringing their own attitudes in also.) The article also says this, but let me emphasize that this article is discussing the *kind of issues* (especially time and distance, and human reaction time and perceptual time) that come up in analyzing Ferguson, and does refer to Ferguson when the issues there fit -- BUT the author is very clear that he is *not* actually writing about Ferguson. In particular he does not know the timings and distances accurately enough (yet) to say that much about them, so he *cant* write about Ferguson. policeone/officer-shootings/articles/7510745-Examining-issues-of-time-in-the-Ferguson-shooting/
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:03:11 +0000
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