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  • StevenC.

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    Force Science Institute will be publishing a peer reviewed article on memory in stressful events.

    From Force Science News (#290):

    "Memory is worst about most critical moment of an OIS

    A profound irony is revealed in a major new study of human performance under stress, sponsored by the Force Science Institute.

    Namely: At the most critical moment in a force encounter--the moment that perhaps is most important for an officer to describe accurately--the officer's memory of certain key details about what happened is likely to be the least reliable.

    In particular, the first-of-its-kind study documents that officers actively involved in armed confrontations often have difficulty accurately answering questions about a suspect's weapon, including whether a weapon was visible in the offender's hand, how the weapon was presented, and even whether the suspect fired it during the incident.

    A peer-reviewed report on the study has been accepted for publication by the American Psychological Assn.'s prestigious journal, Law and Human Behavior. This will be the eleventh peer-reviewed scientific journal to have published law enforcement-related studies by the Force Science Institute.
    An international team that included Dr. Bill Lewinski, FSI's executive director, conducted the research. Lead author of the findings is Dr. Lorraine Hope, a professor of applied cognitive psychology at the University of Portsmouth in England."

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    The tl;dr version of the email was that they subjected officers to essentially a suicide by cop scenario where the actor did everything possible to mislead the officer into believing a gun tucked into the waist band of jeans was drawn and pointed at the officer when it had not.

    85% of the officers shot, afterwards 20% of the officers were adamant the gun had been point at or towards them.

    "It has been solidly established in scientific literature that the greater the stress, the more likely that memory will be flawed." Force Science Institute declared, and, "This study is added evidence that to expect an officer actively involved in a life-threatening encounter to resolve the action and completely grasp and later accurately describe in detail everything that happened may be expecting too much from the average human being.

    Investigators need to remember that an officer who misses or misstates information about an event that later becomes significant is not necessarily being deceptive or self-serving."

    [Not at all new or ground breaking, but still of benefit for those who train people to carry guns for self defense]
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