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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
...anyone want to play Occam's razor here?
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Cop pulls up, sees a car stopped in the intersection with the door open and a man tending to a woman inside the crosswalk.
Occam's razor: this man hit the woman with his car.
Reality: the person who hit her fled the scene, and the person behind them is the one that stopped to help.
Even as a scientific tool (which is what it is), Occam's Razor can be lacking. Why would you want to lean on it when someone's entire livelihood is at stake? If they're guilty, then the investigation will find them guilty, just give it some time.
I get you wanna sling someone up on a tree branch, but this country we live in requires more than "hoofbeats = horse, not zebra" before you can actually do that.