If you are as fascinated with the Netflix series Making a Murderer as I was, you might also be interested to know about the Reid Technique, the method police used to interrogate Brendan Dassey. Police around the country use it. And, apparently, it sucks. To wit:
"A growing number of scientists and legal scholars have raised
concerns about Reid-style interrogation. Of the three hundred and eleven
people exonerated through post-conviction DNA testing, more than a
quarter had given false confessions—including those convicted in such
notorious cases as the Central Park Five. The extent of the problem is
unknowable, because there’s no national database on wrongful
convictions. But false confessions, which often lead to these
convictions, are not rare, and experts say that Reid-style
interrogations can produce them."Read the great New Yorker piece about it here.
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