Posted on 01/03/2018 4:23:53 PM PST by TChris
There may be a significant shift in police interrogation methods over the next several years. The Marshall Project reports one of the nation's largest police consulting firms is abandoning a technique that has been used by a majority of law enforcement agencies over the last six decades. It's called the Reid Technique, and it's been linked to a large number of false confessions.
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I have a relative in the police academy as we speak. I’ll have to ask him if the training has changed.
I was able to help a buddy long ago dealing an Article 15 on this. Someone had “confessed” implicating him though he was innocent. I showed him some articles from the library (no internet back then) about cases where the police elicited confessions that were later disproven and their techniques. We even found examples that matched the other guy’s transcript. He was cleared.
The best defense to this technique is never, ever talk to the police without your lawyer present. And you lawyer will advise you not to make a statement.
I doubt they teach interrogation in the academy, at least to noobie officers. It's mostly a detective sort of thing, AFAIK.
Proving once again that you'll never convince a man of anything if he earns his living believing the opposite.
Adam 12 baby!
Yeah, but they kept the streets safe then.
The best defense to this technique is never, ever talk to the police without your lawyer present. And you lawyer will advise you not to make a statement.
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Yep, if ever a person is arrested, they shouldn’t say anything except I want a lawyer. Even if they don’t have a lawyer or know one, it changes what the cops can do.
Yes, the right advice.
The only problem can be that if it involves a family member who was killed or disappeared, (definitely a rare occurrence), if you lawyer up Nancy Grace sleeps in your yard and badgers you until you confess or commit suicide.
—You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions.
—Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.
—You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future.
—If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish.
—If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present, you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney.
—Knowing and understanding your rights as I have explained them to you, are you willing to answer my questions without an attorney present?
and the one they ALWAYS OMIT:
Nothing you say can be used for your defense.
If I’m not mistaken, recruits are not taught this. This is generally for investigators etc.
On that note, here’s the famous Don’t Talk to Cops video
Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney, tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.
Well worth the <30minute watch, if you haven’t.
Words of wisdom. I read a book about false confessions and the author said, If there’s a crime in your immediate community, such as on your street or in your apartment building, and the cops knock on your door and say, Excuse me, we’re asking the neighbors if they saw or heard something, remember that anything you say could be used against you. Food for thought. One of your neighbors could have told the cops that the victim had a fight with you last year. The cops have no other clues so they start to focus on you.
They don’t teach interrogation in basick police academies. They teach interviewing but not interrogation.
Reid technique’s nine steps of interrogation are:
1. Direct confrontation. Advise the suspect that the evidence has led the police to the individual as a suspect. Offer the person an early opportunity to explain why the offense took place.
2. Try to shift the blame away from the suspect to some other person or set of circumstances that prompted the suspect to commit the crime. That is, develop themes containing reasons that will psychologically justify or excuse the crime. Themes may be developed or changed to find one to which the accused is most responsive.
3.Try to minimize the frequency of suspect denials.
4. At this point, the accused will often give a reason why he or she did not or could not commit the crime. Try to use this to move towards the acknowledgement of what they did.
5. Reinforce sincerity to ensure that the suspect is receptive.
6. The suspect will become quieter and listen. Move the theme discussion towards offering alternatives. If the suspect cries at this point, infer guilt.
7. Pose the “alternative question”, giving two choices for what happened; one more socially acceptable than the other. The suspect is expected to choose the easier option but whichever alternative the suspect chooses, guilt is admitted. As stated above, there is always a third option which is to maintain that they did not commit the crime.
8. Lead the suspect to repeat the admission of guilt in front of witnesses and develop corroborating information to establish the validity of the confession.
9. Document the suspect’s admission or confession and have him or her prepare a recorded statement (audio, video or written).
The Marshall Project may as well be a Soros project (probably funded by that bastard but I have not checked)
If my memory serves me well Marshall Project is whackadoo leftists (not Libertarian or Constitutionalist) Marxist outfit that is systematically going after law enforcement and judicial system....and I don’t mean in a good way.
Espouses zero youth incarceration....aka 16 y.o. kills someone during a robbery or gang shooting...let us use “restorative justice” “peace circles” and “counseling”
It’s not about guilt or innocence. It’s about closing cases.
However it happens, pumping the government full of snake oil is never auspicious. It’s suspicious though.
Good psychology ought to debunk this bullshit.
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