The World's Most Successful Police Sketch Artist

Apr 27, 2020 6:26 PM

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The World's Most Successful Police Sketch Artist

Badass

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Damn she was gorgeous (and still is!)

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If her sketches do the job, great. I have never seen a sketch that looked anything like the actual criminal.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She looks ten years younger at least. I guess when you have a job you love...

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

to be honest I don't every think those sketches look like the person they're supposed to portray. I think I could never identify someone.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Her professionalism aside of her personal saves many lives.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

If she just drew stick figures. At 10 seconds a pop, given that she solves a crime every 3rd drawing that's 360 crimes solved per hour !

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

120

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You are correct!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This reminds me of the scene in Johnny English. "And a scar in the shape of...a banana." [Which side?] "Both"

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Feeling sketchy about the 10 who downvoted this post.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I hope I look this good at nearly 70 years old.

6 years ago | Likes 111 Dislikes 0

As a tattoo artist I've been asked by local cops to sketch out bad guys. Sad to say I only draw skulls.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not the same thing, but Terry Crews got his start as a courtroom sketch artist.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

His start? That's how he became an actor? I'm doing it all wrong.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well not as an actor but as a professional. He was an artist first. Then an NFL football player. Then an artist again. Then an actor. (1)

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Then a TV host. Then a furniture designer (I am NOT making that shit up). The dude is a legit Renaissance man.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good for her

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

This is a powerful and incredible story of talent and finding your goals in life. I still smiled like an idiot when she said 69

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Why put porn music to this? The fuq?

6 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 1

Justice porn

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Damn, that's cool shit

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Amazing how even horribly negative experiences can be such positive motivators. I’m glad she is able to help others. Thanks for sharing.

6 years ago | Likes 1490 Dislikes 0

Sublimation

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My mom got her leg cut off in a horse riding accident when she was 12. She later owned her own prosthetic company. Life has a sense of humor

6 years ago | Likes 114 Dislikes 0

Or you need a sense of humor to win with life

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It‘s also known as adversarial growth and it‘s an amazing way of the mind to cope with tragic events.

6 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Post Traumatic Growth

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A cornerstone time in their life.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Am I the only one who thinks she looks waaaay younger than 69 (niiiceee)

6 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

*after that guy tried to kill her*

6 years ago | Likes 89 Dislikes 1

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I thought of Funke as well

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Was this horrible background music necessary

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why is funny a tag on this? This woman is doing amazing police work

6 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 1

Haha, murders.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Funny," is the most popular tag. Any post tagged with it has a higher chance of reaching Most Viral.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Funny for the “fuck you” factor of the criminals she puts away?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Screenshotted the comparison so you can all judge for yourselves 1/2

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Was posted deeper in the comments, but figured I would post it here so everyone could see without having to read all the comments 2/2

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Honestly, the bottom one doesn't look similar to me at all.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But I would hope the police went off of more than a general description.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The top one is'nt really that close either.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"I just draw people I don't like and they go to jail. Its amazing"

6 years ago | Likes 1669 Dislikes 11

It's*

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 156 Dislikes 4

so appropriate!!

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Sketchnote

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Howcome this comment has the most votes but is number 2 comment?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not sure if the downvotes has anything to do with it. There are 7 as I write though. Hardly any. Seems weird.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

something is sketchy here.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's a good life, especially for her Twilight years.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 209 Dislikes 3

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6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

This will be top comment.

6 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 2

You were right

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I said that when it was only 12 minutes old, too...wild.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Zeitgeist mate. Props.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dude just writes this on comments he likes and they go straight to the top.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

So, this lady's story is EXACTLY THE REASON why the identity of suspects should be kept out of the papers. This lady is living bias.

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

I thought there was a scientific way to jog people’s memory to produce such sketches.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope. In moments of trauma, your mind goes into survival mode. You actually lose detail. Vivid memory is not accurate memory.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Add in to that that, unless people are SUPER familiar, we're actually kind of bad at describing the faces of people from other races...

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yep. That too. Really her drawings could be replaced by a text description you could fit within an imgur comment.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Scary.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm not mad at her, it's the system's responsibility to keep things controlled, but this is SUPER far from an impartial approach

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

I always wondered how people pull faces from memory. Always scared me I couldn't. It took me until I was an adult to realize I'm face blind.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They didn't. They gave details so vague you could fit within 140 characters. Even the ones they show off aren't that close.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These are the best examples. The ones they CHOSE to represent her work. Might as well play "guess who"

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seriously, other then the most superficial details I don’t think I could describe my own mother to a sketch artists

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Prosopagnosia?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yup. A mild case, but yup. Looks unnerving that I couldn't describe my family's faces or husband's eye color.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How old? Nice.

6 years ago | Likes 332 Dislikes 3

Nice

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fr though she looks good for her age

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I know! right?

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Just upvoted this to 69. I kinda expected a celebration

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

6 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Nice.

6 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 0

Nice!

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Nice.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Wtf is the music that doesn't go at all.

6 years ago | Likes 418 Dislikes 2

Here, fixed it for you… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn37QfXw1-E

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Very funky 70s san fran cop movie-esque.

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Yeah but the shit series one that didn't make it out of pilot

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

“Murders, rapes” *upbeat music hits its stride*

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We couldn't afford "Bad Boys"

6 years ago | Likes 154 Dislikes 0

Ah well, whatcha gonna do.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Best answer.

6 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

I think it fits fine, it makes her seem like a badass, which she is

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bad boys
Whatcha want, watcha want

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Watcha gonna do...

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

When chevy chum rum cum fer you..EH EH!

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Eyewitness testimony is the least reliable source of evidence out there. In times of trauma, our minds LOSE detail.

6 years ago | Likes 295 Dislikes 9

That's why in France, we consider them a start of a proof, aka it's not a proof but may lead to other proofs.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And vividness of memory is separate from the accuracy of the memory. :(

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

You’re talking about instantaneous actions that happen fast. She works with people who looked their attacker in the eye for considerable

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Amounts of time. Not the same thing.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And yet they were still THIS wrong. This is a documentary, these are likely the BEST ones she did.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

this wouldn't be the only evidence - "well this guy looks like the sketch, open and shut, book him" - do you think it works like that?

6 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

You know that sense of a complete and detailed world around you? yeah, total illusion. The eye only sees in detail in a very small area & 1)

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

we're blind between points of focus, so what the brain gets is small snapshots of high detail and it stitches them together 2)

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

until you actually focus your eyes on it. during traumatic events our focus is very specific, so much of the surrounding detail is missed 4)

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

like a panorama made from multiple photos. But a lot of the in between space is completely invented by the brain, to fill in the gaps, 3)

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago (deleted Apr 27, 2020 10:29 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Like literally in the video above you mean?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

have you watched the video ?

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You mean like this?

6 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Yeah and those are definitely off

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Top one not so much but the bottom one yeah I agree

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

You've got the benefit of hindsight - imagine all of the people that the sketch could vaguely resemble rather than 'does this specific >

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Hence why it’s important to corroborate and cross check eye witness accounts... this woman’s work is still important

6 years ago | Likes 155 Dislikes 1

"Hence why" is a tautology. It'd be like saying, "but however..." PICK ONE!

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 28

You are correct but however there are ways to educate someone without being a dick about it.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

They're not as good.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Oh fuck off

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

*Oh piss fuck away off

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Touché.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

We retain some amount of detail that can be crucial. Height, hair color, facial hair, glasses, scars, presence of exposed genitals.

6 years ago | Likes 120 Dislikes 4

I mean, don't we all expose our genitals in the commission of crime? And ya know, all our genitals look the same. Except for karen's. Gross.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I was assaulted and all I remember is his accent, I later saw a picture and recognised him but now hearing a similar accent or name is hard.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All things that could in theory apply to hundreds of people in a city with 10s of thousands. Or thousands of people in a bigger city. 1/2

6 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 3

It doesn't narrow things down enough, and even many of those "1 in 3" who were "caught" could be innocent. Forensic evidence is needed. 2/2

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

I mean, despite the oversimplification in the post, the person drawn is simply a suspect. I'm sure once caught, more tests are done.

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Yes.. Though I'd recommend watching "the innocence project" on Netflix about that!

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That woman needs a breast reduction. She walks like her back was put through the laundry.

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 6

Lol I noticed this too and though the same thing. Looks uncomfortable

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Irrelevant

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 12

found the lady with fat tits

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Irrelevant to what? I'm pretty sure people make observations all the time.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

To the discussion.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

I wasn't having a discussion with anyone. I was making an observation.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I like how someone with the username SienRaak(seeing rack?) has a problem with this

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

What discussion? This was a comment to the main post.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

It's funny that someone who has had an account for less than 2 months is trying to dismiss my comment as irrelevant. lol

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1