March 07, 2017
USA – The Seismic Change in Police Interrogations
A major player in law enforcement says it will no longer use a method linked to false confessions.
By Eli Hager
You may have never heard of the Reid technique, but chances are you know how it works. For more than half a century, it has been the go-to police interrogation method for squeezing confessions out of suspects. Its tropes are familiar from any cop show: the claustrophobic room, the repeated accusations of guilt, the presentation of evidence — real or invented — and the slow build-up of pressure that makes admitting a crime seem like the easiest way out.
That’s why it jolted the investigative world this week when one of the nation’s largest police consulting firms — one that has trained hundreds of thousands of cops from Chicago to New York and federal agents at almost every major agency — said it is tossing out the Reid technique because of the risk of false confessions. . . . . . . . . .
Read full Article at: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/03/07/the-seismic-change-in-police-interrogations#.fLOm2mbNG
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