Interrogation

[ciphergoth]

Randomly reading HowStuffWorks for Sunday morning entertainment, and found this fascinating article on How police interrogation works. Vital reading in case you're ever picked up for a crime you didn't commit :-)

Comments

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Are there published studies on how it goes wrong? A prudent man would look for ways of disrupting the 'goup-think' spiral of police officers convincing themselves that one suspect is guilty, and discounting everything that fails to reinforce that view.

A paranoid man would look for tell-tale signs that their post-arrest processing is a sham, and that they are being 'fitted-up'. But I doubt that anything would be published on that topic.

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

A prudent man would look for ways of disrupting the 'goup-think' spiral of police officers convincing themselves that one suspect is guilty, and discounting everything that fails to reinforce that view.

It seems that the prudent thing to do is simply to ask to remain silent and ask for a lawyer.