Study suggests police officer wrongfully convicted for missing the 'obvious'
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 04:30
in Psychology & Sociology
In a new study, researchers tested the claims of a Boston police officer who said he ran past a brutal police beating without seeing it. After re-creating some of the conditions of the original incident and testing the perceptions of college students who ran past a staged fight, the researchers found the officer's story plausible.
