Posted on 06/05/2014 12:22:02 PM PDT by QT3.14
On-camera interrogations are increasingly common with state and local police, and now in a sharp change in policy, the FBI will require its 13,000 agents to record nearly every suspect interview starting next month.
It can be a powerful eyewitness, according to Assistant Chief Russ Hamill of the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland, near Washington D.C.
"It probably benefits officers far more than it ever hinders an officer," Hamill said.
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They’ll use green-screen techniques to remove the rubber hose.
If they’re going to videotape those interrogations, they’re going to have to improve on the one bare bulb lighting.
Don’t speak to them unless you have your attorney sitting next to you.
Remember the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing?
A security guard, Richard Jewell, was initially named as the culprit, although he was only trying to help. The FBI claimed Jewell set it up in order to cast himself as hero:
Under interrogation the FIBBERS knew Jewell had failed several times to become a real cop and that he idolized “real badges”.
After the initial questioning they pretended to finally give up questioning him as a suspect:
The FBI pretended to relax and take on a totally new tone with Jewell—they claimed they needed to make a fictional TRAINING FILM in which a bombing suspect finally admits guilt, and since they were all fellow lawmen and Richard was HERE, and all, would he mind helping them out in making this silly little training film..?”
And in the friendly “fellow lawman” atmosphere they’d created Richard Jewell was about 1 micrometer from complying and sealing his fate.
He remembered that his former college roommate went on to become a lawyer and he called him up:
“Get out of there this second, Richard, you stupid fat-as*…!”
And THAT is how he saved himself by a whisker —because he had a tiny flash of doubt.
I stand amazed every time my wife watches one of those crime shows on A&E or Reelz. These people are incredibly stupid, you should never talk to the police. Not even as a witness, until you have a lawyer present to instruct you how not to incriminate yourself. Do these people not realize that the investigator is not your friend or confidant. The investigator is trained in ways to get you to feel intimidated, or they are a sympathetic figure that you should trust. The only words that ever should come out of your mouth are “I want a lawyer’.
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