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Part 3: The Reid Technique It isn’t just a few bad cops using psychological coercion. It’s a part of the manual. Used globally and by officers in all fifty states, the Reid Technique works. It reliably gets suspects to confess. Whether those confessions are reliable, though, is a trickier question.  This is part 3 of […]

It doesn’t take a beating with a rubber hose to push an innocent person past their breaking point. Now, police employ psychological methods and forms of deception to break a suspect’s will and elicit a confession. Join Amanda & Chris for this six-part miniseries.  This is part 2 of False Confessions, a six-part miniseries.

Most of us believe we would never confess to a crime we didn’t commit. But by our best estimates, there are upwards of 5,000 innocent people locked up in our prison system who falsely confessed. What is happening inside interrogation rooms to break the will of so many innocent people? To answer this question, we’re […]