Q10 - Even if a crime

[deedubbew]

Help.

[ohthatpatrick]

Strengthen EXCEPT

We need to eliminate four answer choices that tell us
[i]How come criminals who commit crimes over the computer usually get away with it?[/]

(A) This tells us that prosecutors don't want to take on computer-fraud cases. Such cases are a huge drain on time and prosecutors want to power through a lot of cases.

(B) This tells us that police officers would need to work for many years on the same assignment to become proficient at busting computer crimes, but the officers rotate assignments every couple years.

(C) This tells us that local police departments prefer to take on visible, widely-feared street crime rather than to take on computer crime.

(D) This is talking about what type of sentencing computer criminals do/don't get, which is irrelevant. If you're being sentenced, then you WERE arrested and convicted. We want reasons that these computer criminals DON'T get arrested and convicted.

(E) This tell us that cops often accidentally destroy the evidence of computer crimes because they're untrained in computers.

So (D) is the correct answer because it gives us no reason why computer criminals normally elude arrest and conviction.

Hope this helps.

[YudeS218]

Strengthen EXCEPT

We need to eliminate four answer choices that tell us
[i]How come criminals who commit crimes over the computer usually get away with it?[/]

hey I have a question.

In the stimuli, it has been mentioned that "the criminal" still be greatly favored. So why the criminal here can not be refer to other type of criminals？ For example, some visible street crime that communities perceive as threatening (C)?

why must be computer-related crimes here?

[kollaros.maria]

I now understand why the answer to this question is D, but I have a problem with eliminating answer choice B. The stimulus says "even if a crime that has been committed by computer is discovered and reported" so I assumed that we only care about these types of crimes. If a crime hasn't been discovered or reported it doesn't fit the conditions of the stimulus. I chose B as an answer because if police officers are not becoming proficient as computer-crime investigators I thought that implies that a crime is not being discovered, and so that doesn't fit the stimulus.

[ohthatpatrick]

The "discovered and reported" in the stimulus, I think, is meant to mean you or me discovering a computer crime and reporting it to the police.

From there, the police would try to investigate the crime and see if they could ascertain the culprit.

- I discover there are fraudulent electronic withdrawals from my bank account.
- I report this crime to the cops.
- The officers assigned to investigate this crime (in the hopes of discovering who committed the crime) are unfortunately not PROFICIENT as investigators, and thus it is likely that the criminal will not be arrested/convicted.

Hope this helps.