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Experiencers and Forecasters estimated the percentage of participants who would comply with the search request. Experiencers' average guess (67.30%) significantly exceeded Forecasters' (43.79%), but both groups significantly underestimated compliance when compared to true compliance—the percentage of Experiencers in the experiment who ultimately complied (94.57%). Error bars represent bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. Credit: Journal of Empirical…

If you’ve ever had to look for a job, you’ve probably heard the classic boomer advice “Just take your CV to the place you want to work at and they’ll hire you”. Turns out, it can work sometimes. This street dog started showing up at a police station in Rio de Janeiro until the officers adopted him as their official mascot. He should definitely share his success story on LinkedIn!More info: InstagramA scared and malnourished stray showed up at the local police stationShare iconImage credits: oliveira17bpmThe 17th…

An Illinois police department have apologised for an offensive recruitment poster, inspired by Call Of Duty. In a now deleted post on social media, the Peoria police department shared a recruitment poster featuring three armed, white police officers with assault rifles. The accompanying text read: “Stop playing games and answer the Call Of Duty”, with the last three words written in the same font as Activision Blizzard’s blockbuster franchise. The poster was quickly criticised, with many pointing out that taking…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When police pull back, crime accelerates. But policing alone is no cure-all. That's the takeaway from a new Denver-area study co-authored by researchers at CU Boulder and collaborators in Nebraska, Michigan, and South Carolina. The study found that, on average, property and violent crime reports increased 27.1% and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePolice seized 72 firearms and more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition from the house of French screen legend Alain Delon.Delon, 88, had no authorisation that would allow him to own a firearm, according to prosecutor Jean-Cédric Gaux.Law enforcement officials also found a shooting range in the actor's rural home in Douchy-Montcorbon, located nearly 135km south of Paris.The search at his…

Police have seized 72 firearms from the home of French screen legend Alain Delon, who doesn’t have a permit for any of them, prosecutors said on Tuesday.Officers also found more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition and a shooting range in the actor’s rural home in Douchy-Montcorbon, 84 miles (135km) south of Paris.Delon, 88, “has no authorisation that would allow him to own a firearm”, said local prosecutor Jean-Cédric Gaux.The star played gun-toting gangsters in several of his most famous films, including Borsalino and is…

A vacant multimillion-dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills played host to a group of squatters earlier this year, including a person who created a fake lease agreement, a woman who claimed to be making content for her OnlyFans page, and a French bulldog.Real estate agents Emily Randall-Smith and her husband, Tyler Smith, had planned to prepare the home for an open house Jan. 6 when they were met with obvious signs that someone had made themselves at home. The security box where the agents had kept a key was broken open,…

New South Wales police are investigating allegations Taylor Swift’s father assaulted a member of the paparazzi in Sydney, hours after the sold-out Eras Tour wrapped up in Australia.NSW police have been told that Scott Swift, 71, allegedly assaulted photographer Ben McDonald, 51, at the Neutral Bay wharf around 2.30am on Tuesday.McDonald told Guardian Australia that Taylor Swift and her entourage were cruising the harbour on a superyacht late at night after completing her final Australian show.The superstar got off the…

Sydney police confirmed Monday night that they are investigating an assault allegation near Syndey’s North Shore at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday (10:30 a.m. Monday E.T.) after reports surfaced that it involved Taylor Swift‘s father. In a new statement to Rolling Stone, a spokesperson for Taylor Swift says that at the time of the alleged incident, two people were “aggressively pushing” to get to Swift, grabbed security, and threatened a member of the singer’s staff. “Two individuals were aggressively pushing their way…

Lockbit, the cybercrime gang that was knocked offline by a comprehensive international police operation earlier this month, says it has restored its servers and is back in business.The group, notorious on the internet's criminal underground for using malicious software called ransomware to digitally extort its victims, was the target of an unprecedented international law enforcement operation last week which saw its members arrested and indicted.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…