What Attorneys Do To Challenge Critical Police Report Bias

How can a police report be biased in a domestic-violence case? Through what Oakland attorney Darryl Stallworth calls confirmatory bias—an officer who believes someone did wrong writes the report that way, choosing adjectives that corroborate the accuser's account. He stresses it's rarely malicious; it flows from the instinct to protect and serve. Still, that framing often hurts the accused client.

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