Get To Work Bug - Detective Career:

I can't read what the clues are but if the issue is the clothes it is probably because of seasons. The suspects will sometimes be in their hot or cold weather outfits depending on the weather rather than the clothing given as clues.

The last clue says the suspect is male, but all three possible candidates are females, is that the problem?

I run into this occasionally in rotational play. When I play several detectives in a row, the clues get mixed up. I've also had no suspects at all show up, a cat being spawned as the decoy, Batuu sims spawning as both decoys and suspects and a played sim being the suspect. Even worse, when suspects appear in their summer/winter clothes at the arrest scene, asking them to "show casual outfit" doesn't work. The career is very finnicky (but still one of my favorites). It's not ideal, but if you archive all clues before switching households, then you should be able to avoid the problem.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18122763" wrote:
Nobody said that Detective would be an easy job.

This bug makes it realistic. The police doesn't always catch the suspect.

So far three innocent suspects have been released. Any time I issue an APB on this particular job and interview passing NPC's about the suspect they always claim they don't know who i'm talking about. Other times i've solved the crime. This is the first time i've not been able to find anyone.

In the past I've gone back without making an arrest, put out another APB, and then looked for sims who were at both locations.

"Daephene;c-18123351" wrote:
In the past I've gone back without making an arrest, put out another APB, and then looked for sims who were at both locations.

So i sent out another APB and despite the clues saying the suspect was male, a witness told me the suspect is "over there aren't they" when i scrolled across the screen, a female sim is nearby matching some of the description.

You can't trust the witnesses.
Do you have any mods that affect NPCs?

"RedShoe7;c-18123474" wrote:
You can't trust the witnesses.
Do you have any mods that affect NPCs?

I only have MCCC installed so that shouldn't affect NPCs to my knowledge.

Well it was getting worse. Every suspect Ayla arrested never turned up at the police station and the same three people she's arrested before kept popping up at every APB even after arresting them minutes before!. I've had her quit and re-join the force so i'll see if that fixes anything.