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What is the difference between "person of interest" and "suspect"?

Asked by AnswerQuest (12points) October 28th, 2010
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Why the recent use in the media of the term “a person of interest”?
Why not continue using “a suspect”?

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FutureMemory's avatar

You can have some sort of association with a crime without being a suspect. I believe that is when you’re simply a person of interest.

lillycoyote's avatar

This seems to be a pretty good discussion of issue.

john65pennington's avatar

A person of interest is someone that may have information to connect to a suspect.

A suspect is someone that has a motive for committing a crime.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Gadzooks, they just say that so the suspect don’t go rabbit on them or lawyer up.

Russell_D_SpacePoet's avatar

Political correctness.

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