At 2 a.m. Tuesday, the Detroit Police Department responded to a 911 call reporting a break-in in progress. The 911 caller reported that there was an African-American man running down the street wearing a pair of blue jeans. As police approached the scene, one of the officers noticed an African-American male running down the street in a pair of blue jeans and a white shirt. The officer stopped the car and began chasing the man on foot. Officers confronted the individual, placed him in handcuffs and returned him to the police cruiser. The police interrogated the man for 45 minutes before anyone realized that the man currently being held for questioning was not the perpetrator of the crime. The original officer used his decision-making skills and went after the first African American male wearing blue jeans. After speaking with the man, officers discovered that the African-American man was chasing the man who committed the crime. The man, named Todd, was sitting on his porch when he noticed an African American male enter his neighbor's house. Knowing that his Hispanic neighbor wasn't home, he thought the man entering the house seemed a little strange to him. Todd then noticed the stranger carrying a television and radio out of the house along with other personal items. He believed the man was breaking into the house and that's when he chased the stranger. Both the police officer and Todd used judgment and decision making to do what they believed was the right thing to do. Both of these processes happen very quickly and the person sometimes works with very little information. This chapter will examine why we make judgments. What information in or... halfway through the document......the situation happened when in reality it didn't happen that way. In conclusion, forensic psychology is a new and evolving field. Although eyewitness testimony has sometimes proven unreliable, this will still be a technique that will be used in court cases. If ever in a jury, with eyewitness testimony, we will have to remember how memory can interfere with how we make decisions. We will continue to use judgment in our daily survival. Stereotypes are also something that will never go away. Our brains will always rely on shortcuts to survive. We will never know how our judgment and decision making will affect our lives until it is too late. What we can only do is research that has been done in the field of forensic psychology to make better choices in the courtroom and in our daily lives..