It's not just intuition, it goes beyond profiling, it includes years of individual experience and decades of accumulated institutional experience, it is an art and a science, and it is what separates the good officers from the great officers. Officers (and mothers, as Dwight so aptly pointed out) learn to read all those non-verbal cues we are constantly sending out, and they use them to figure out who is "wrong" and who is "right".
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