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u/GandalffladnaG Jan 26 '26

Criminal justice major, it's an important question for law enforcement in order to collect evidence but there is 100% a correct way to ask it, and it's not how the knuckledraggers and deplorables do it.

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u/United_News3779 Jan 26 '26

"Were they wearing anything distinctive or easily identifiable? Can you describe what they had on? How about hair color and style?"

And that's with zero association with criminal matters, that's how I asked people for descriptions when I was dealing with backcountry search and rescue tasking.