“People are just wired to believe that if you confess to a crime then you must’ve committed it. All…”
“People are just wired to believe that if you confess to a crime then you must’ve committed it. All sorts of alibis and evidence will bend or disappear once you’ve confessed, it’s that convincing. Part of what we have to do in this discussion is move that off the table. People confess, and it may or may not be true. In terms of the efficacy of Reid technique, it gets people to confess, but there’s a certain amount of collateral damage. Probably the vast majority of people who confess to this technique confess correctly, but there is collateral damage, and that is a frightening thing.”
– Science journalist Douglas Starr speaks to Fresh Air about interrogation techniques and why false confessions are a problem in our justice system
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