Post by tourism on May 16, 2018 3:14:37 GMT
It is what it is to you and I respect that. But it is what it is to me.
If the FBI and other LE believed profiling was just a matter of guess work and magic they would not waste any of their time or resources using it. I believe in the technique of profiling in order fir LE to get a fairly good idea of the kind of persons LE hunts.
In this case before I began my research, I believed the EAR was a scumbag living in a trailer park with no family or friends, came raised by multiple foster families, working random jobs, unable to hold down any meaningful job for long periods, worked mostly construction jobs, and in between jobs he burglarized homes and robbed liquor stores, stole cars and slept in them, and probably got shot or killed in some other way while in the process of committing a crime and was just plain dead, dead, dead.
I read that criminal profiling had been utilized many times by LE and had a high success rate. I read that the detective who hunted the Riverside serial killer actually interviewed Ted Bundy and that detective used that interview and profiling to help catch the killer, which he did. At the least, profiling helps point detectives in one direction so they aren't pursuing guys who are less likely to be their guy, and at the same time prevents LE from turning their attention away from someone who just might be their guy.
I'm also not trying to convince anyone of anything. These are my personal opinions. I'm sure there are a lot of detectives out there who may not agree with, believe in, or use profiling. I have great respect for the detectives who do. Those are, in my opinion, the best detectives.
It may been a coincidence that I got a lot of things correct based on having followed the same guidelines used by the criminal profiling books. Nevertheless, they were correct. And anyway, nothing I did or ever posted on this board contributed to the final capture of the EAR.
I am not a professional and I am not LE. I am just an artist. But I have faith, I am spiritual, I believe in God, in prayers, and and as an artist I do have a very good eye for detail.
Sure, it's just that they've actually pretty much abandoned profiling on the basis that it has never actually led to an arrest (rather, it has led to wrongful arrests and the wrong people being cleared). Maybe the riverside investigator did speak to Ted Bundy, but I'd be astonished if any resulting profile gave them the arrest. The prevailing view among detectives (imbued with divine investigation or otherwise) is that it's junk science.
This is pretty enlightening: www.mun.ca/psychology/brl/publications/Snook_et_al_2008_illusion.pdf