The use of manipulative interrogation techniques by police officers in the United States, specifically the Reid Interrogation Technique, is like a psychological tsunami. The steam-rolling effect of utilizing intense pressure and police deception to intimidate suspects into confessing to crimes has resulted in false confessions and wrongful convictions, which disparately impact the Black community, youth, and individuals with intellectual disabilities or mental illnesses, and contributes to an unjust criminal justice system. Despite support from law enforcement, the Reid technique should be banned nationwide and instead replaced with a more ethical approach like the P.E.A.C.E. interviewing method employed in the United Kingdom and ten other countries around the world to equal effect and without adverse consequences. This method is available to the federal government and states to adopt on their own, but the Supreme Court has not revisited the topic of Reid, when they should be concerned with many innocent individuals going to prison.
To read this Note, please click here: A Call To Eradicate The Reid Technique: An Alternative To Deceptive Interrogations