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Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture

Behind the Bastards

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The Reed Technique

The reed technique is an interrogation tactic invented in 19 62 by a former cop anda polygraph expert. The origin of his technique came from a 19 55 case when a guy named darrell parker came home to find his wife raped and murdered. After nine hours of interrogation, parker broke down and confessed. He recanted the next day, but a jury found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. Now read was like, od, this is the way we should always do interrogations a and he refined his strategy into a technique which generally boils down to elaborately accusing the suspect of committing a detailed crime.

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