Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets By David Simon

What does the Central Park Five case and Martin Tankleff have in common? In both New York cases, the suspects provided false confessions to law enforcement, and they were found guilty because of interrogation tactics utilized by law enforcement. Several years after these cases, Kassin and Kiechel conducted a study that addresses the issue of false confessions.

In the video “The Confessions” presented by Frontline, a murder of a women that was committed by one man, quickly resulted into a false gang murder-rape scene committed by eight men. The victim, Michelle Bosko, was seen to be raped and killed in her apartment in Norfolk, Virginia. From the video, it has been proven that seven out of the eight men that confessed were innocent, but somehow they all received an unequal punishment. Because the innocent men admitted to a murder that they didn’t commit out of fear, they were all sentenced to some time in prison. The head detective, Glenn Ford, intimidated the men so much that they either were convinced that they were at the crime scene or they told him every detail that he wanted to hear.

When this Central park case was made public, the New York Police Department and District Attorney office’s main focus was to solve the case as quickly as possible. When the five teenagers were found “wilding” in the park the night of the women’s death, the police believed they had found the suspects. The police were so confident of the teenager’s guiltiness, the five boys were interrogated of their involvement in the crime. The police used their authority and persuasion to get the boys to confess and promise them that they would go home if they talked. Through strenuous and intense interrogation, the five boys confessed to the killing and rape of the young women on videotape. These confessions were given even though

Many of today’s interrogation models being utilized in police investigations have an impact on false confessions. The model that has been in the public eye recently is the social psychological process model of interrogation known as the “The Reid Technique.” There are two alternatives used by the police today to replace the Reid Technique, one is the PEACE Model and the other is Cognitive Interviewing. These methods are not interrogation techniques like Reid but interview processes.

Michael Kingston’s “Creating a Criminal” Discuss a new law known as Section 598b of the California Penal Code. 598b states Every Person is guilty of a misdemeanor who possesses, import into the state, sells, buys, gives away, or accepts any carcass of any animal traditionally or commonly kept as a pet/companion with the sole intent of killing and using the animal for food. Kingston brings up a good point on what exactly is constituted as a pet? In America cats and dogs are traditionally regarded as pets. However people who traditionally eat dogs or cats as food are Vietnamese. He also explains that “ A Vietnamese-American family, canine-eating family is no more a threat to the pet-trading industry than a family of European

Police interrogate suspects on a daily basis, but how can they tell if the confession is real? We have all heard, at one time or another of someone confessing to a crime they didn’t commit. Then your next thought is “I would never confess to something I didn’t do”. The only way you can be a 100% sure of that is if you have been through an interrogation before. This paper is going to define “confession” and tell how an innocent person will confesses to a crime they didn’t commit. This paper will also show the history of interrogations.

The officers that interrogated Cathy Woods used the Reid Model which is a nine step model of interrogation that is used to extract false confessions from suspects (Bennel,Forth,Pozzulo). The Reid model is the most used form of interrogation in the United States but has problems because the way it’s used puts a lot of stress on the suspects to confess to a crime they may not even have committed. For example, having interrogations that are hours even days long and denying suspects food, water and even being able to use the bathroom will make people confess just to end the interrogation, which is what happened to Cathy Woods. Cathy Woods’s false confession falls into the Coerced-compliant category because she confessed to a crime she knew she didn’t commit, but did it anyway to end the interrogation. Cathy Woods also vulnerable to false confessions because of her mental illness. To avoid false confessions such as Cathy Woods there must be safety nets in place that would be able to capture these inadequate interrogations. For instance, Saul Kassin a distinguished Professor of Psychology suggests we record all interrogations and have it reviewed by a judge before a trial starts. This way our chances of catching a false confession goes up and we can avoid people who are innocent from serving harsh

A synopsis of the night of the crime, on the night of the crime in 1989, a woman who is identify as Caucasian was jogging at night and was allegedly raped and beaten up. At that night the five teens, who are identify as five African Americans and Hispanics who were treated as suspects in the crime. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) investigated the crime and brought the teens into the interrogation room for questions. As they were being question the interrogation lasted for 30 hours and where they came to a conclusion of a confession. The five teens all confessed to the crime. According to coerced to confess: The psychology of False Confessions stated that,” those five teenage boys who became known as the Central Park Five didn’t commit the crime. They had falsely confessed. Fast-forward to 2002, when the convicted rapist and murder, Mathias Reyes, admitted to the rape of the Jogger.” Due to the result of this, the Central Park five were free. Phycologist study this to see if the investigator try to convince the teens that they have rape the lady that was jogging. Due to this event there were changes in the NYPD of how they conducted their

     There has been many inmates sentenced to death row that innocent. Since 1973, more than 99 people have been released from prison after being sentenced to death despite their innocence, The Social Psychology of Police Interrogation: The

Also it goes on to explain more techniques they used, for example “they ask the suspect to imagine hypothetical scenarios by feeding the information that they want the suspect to imagine. Eventually over a long drawn out interrogation, the suspect gets confused and starts complying with the request being made to imagine the scenarios. Eventually after the long hours of interrogation with no food or water Amanda did as she had been told and described an imaginary scenario where she was in the house covering her ears while hearing the screams of meredith being murdering. After she described it, the police typed it out and this was Amanda's confession from being interrogated physically and mentally by 12 Italian police,” This source shows extreme bias against the interrogation in general especially through this statement, by word choice, they have word choice such as ‘long drawn out interrogation’, ‘mind games’, all of the language is completely bias and wants the reader to feel bad for amanda. They do provide videos of Amanda being physically abused in the interrogation and the things that the police said can be heard however they only include Amanda's view they do not quote anything from the Italian police or people that supported the interrogation. They quote nothing positive about the

In police interrogations, interrogators use many different techniques to get the suspect to confess to their crime. In the book The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier, there is a detective named Trent and he is one of the greatest interrogators and he never fails. Trent was trying to use different techniques to get Jason to confess to the crime, but he didn’t really want to solve the crime, all Trent wanted was for Jason to confess. He wanted to show everyone how great he was and that anyone would confess to him. Trent got a false confession, they are easy to obtain, especially when the suspect in question

All suspects are interrogated effectively. And within the laws so everything or at lease most will be able to use in court.

The purpose of a police interrogation is to obtain a confession, as well as gather evidence, while interviewing the suspect (Pozzulo, Bennell, & Forth, 2015). Though this is the overall goal of police interrogations, there are a few different interrogation techniques or models. A well-known and commonly used method in North America, is the Reid model of interrogation (King & Snook, 2009). The Reid model consists of nine different steps that work to counter the idea that accused individuals will not confess to their crimes because the fear of the possible consequences prevails over any anxiety that they feel when they are being deceptive and/or dishonest (Pozzulo et al., 2015). The Reid model tries to decrease this fear while increasing the

Round-the-clock interrogation was the first idea that the police had in trying to get Thomas Fitzgerald to admit to kidnapping Janet Wilkinson. They thought that if Fitzgerald was exhausted and not allowed to sleep he would slowly lose his resistance and confess. After at least two days of using these tactics, the police needed to try something else. “They’d brought in an

In “The Open Window” I think the author is trying teach the reader not to believe everything you hear. You can see this when in the book it says “could only talk about his