If you see someone commit a crime, the police will no longer ask you to pick that person out from an array of photos. Instead they’ll show you one photo at a time.
And the cop showing you the pictures won’t know which one investigators consider a prime suspect.
That change is occurring in police departments all over Connecticut as a result of the findings of a state commission investigating false identifications. It’s part of a nationwide response to a persistent problem: The wrong people going to jail for heinous crimes.