A body of research now suggests that the Reid Technique, first popularized when used in a 1955 Lincoln homicide investigation, can prompt false confessions from suspects.

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Hayley Cleary, Ph.D., a professor ...

A new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant's 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child. A passage from Sgt. Kroll Goes to the Office (2006), published ...

An interrogation is not a harmonious exchange between two individuals. It’s a conflict. And in this conflict, our ignorance is our strength. Ignorance of the meaning of police work, ignorance of the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - About halfway through a nearly hourlong interrogation of Marco Antonio Perez following the fatal shooting of a police officer, Detective Julius Nettles demanded an explanation.

Watch any cop show on television — we’re looking at you, all versions of “Law & Order” — and the use of deception during scenes of a suspect’s interrogation, in essence lying to a suspect to get a ...

Sparks says had his similar legislation passed in 2016 it would have prevented false arrest lawsuits The false arrest lawsuits involved children in scuffle on neighborhood yards Children in scuffle ...

Wearing too-small paper hospital scrubs, Latarsha Sanders waited alone in an interrogation room at the Brockton police station, her hands clasped across her exposed belly. She fell asleep, her head ...