It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end

Re:It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations.... by pdpi on Saturday November 09, 2024 @03:38AM (#42093295)

Your “trying to frame a man” is their “trying to get him to confess to something he did”. It’s intellectually lazy on their part to jump to that conclusion without any sort of due diligence, but it’s not necessarily evil per se.

Threatening to kill the dog is just plain cruel.

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Re:It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations.... by tolerance on Saturday November 09, 2024 @07:31AM (#42094067)

I’ll try to keep this in mind in case you and I cross paths while I have the upper hand and I happen to be feeling an intellectually lazy sort of way.

Whatever happens shouldn’t be attributed to malice. I won’t hurt your pets. My superiors ought to award me for it. I was just being stupid.

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Re:It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations.... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday November 09, 2024 @07:58AM (#42094187)

> Your “trying to frame a man” is their “trying to get him to confess to something he did”.

This is not a valid activity. Either you have proof or you don’t.

A proper hardened criminal will never confess.

If you have a confession, it’s >70% chance for perversion of justice:

A terrorist will confess because they want fame

In Russia you pay someone to ‘confess’ for your crime and go to prison instead of you.

The naive, mentally infirm will confess, often to things they didn’t do.

Or you managed to torture a confession out of someone, like they did here.

Confessions lead straight to Spanish Inquisition type of justice

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