Miranda Rights - Protection Guides for Youth and Professionals

Dec 01, 2025

California's SB 203, passed in 2020, requires all youth under the age of 18 to consult with an attorney before waiving their rights during a custodial interrogation. The National Center for Youth...

Summary of Investigator Tips Regarding Criticisms of the Reid Technique and Our Responses

Nov 03, 2025

A Description of the Reid Technique of Investigative Interviewing and Interrogation

Over the years we have published numerous Investigator Tips and What's New entries on our website detailing the procedures, processes...

John E. Reid & Associates is HIRING

Sep 04, 2025

John E. Reid and Associates is actively seeking to fill an immediate opening for a part-time instructor based in the Illinois/Indiana region to teach our nationally recognized Interviewing and Interrogation training programs...

The Invetigator's Notebook

Sep 03, 2025

Our new Investigator Tip is entitled, The Investigator’s Notebook which consists of over 190 Investigator Tips organized in a sequence that reflects the various stages of an investigation. Please feel free to...

Article Removed

Aug 27, 2025

In June 2025 we had published an article entitled "Police Chief Magazine Endorses the Foundation of the Reid Technique". We were recently notified by Police Chief magazine that the organization does not...

NilePost Article Completely Misrepresents the Reid Technique.

Aug 16, 2025

In a recent article published in the NilePost on August 14, 2025, Why do Innocent People Confess to Crimes They Didn’t Commit, the author Richard Musaazi, completely misrepresents the Reid Technique, stating...

“The Systemic Side of Disinformation: The Reid Technique as Exploitative Knowledge Production,”

Aug 11, 2025

In this article, “The Systemic Side of Disinformation: The Reid Technique as Exploitative Knowledge Production,” published in the Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal, February 2025, the author, Jayden Perez, completely misrepresents the essential...

New Investigator Tip - Best Practices That Investigators Should Follow to Prevent False Confessions

Aug 08, 2025

In the "Best Practices" Investigator Tip we outline the primary causes of false confessions and then detail the practices that the investigator should follow to prevent false confessions.

Why The Reid Technique Is So Effective In Securing Accurate Confessions From The Guilty While Protecting Their Rights - Information for Investigators

Jun 12, 2025

If you are looking for a scientifically developed Investigative Interviewing Technique that is designed to identify the truth and protect the innocent while at the same time, identify the person who is...

Correcting Misinformation About the Reid Technique

May 07, 2025

The following is our latest Investigator Tip:

Correcting Misinformation About the Reid Technique

"Critics of the Reid Technique make several false and erroneous statements...

Reporter Completely Gets It Wrong

Apr 21, 2025

Reporter Completely Gets It Wrong *** See Addendum below

In a recent article in the Toronto Star, April 20, 2025 entitled, Interrogating the Interrogators, the author, Jason Miller completely and dishonestly...

The Reid Technique of Investigative Interviewing and Positive Persuasion - New Five-Hour Video Training Program

Mar 27, 2025

This five hour video training program consists of three primary topics:

Behavior Symptom Analysis

During this segment, we discuss the verbal, paralinguistic and nonverbal behavior symptoms that are displayed by...

If it does not fit the reporter's narrative, it doesn't make the story

Mar 24, 2025

In a recent article published on the WLBT3 website entitled, “Amanda Knox calls for ban on police lying to suspects during interrogation”, the authors describe several false confession cases in which they...

“American Nightmare” survivors Denise Huskins, Aaron Quinn use their trauma to help retrain law enforcement

Feb 13, 2025

In a recent article published February 10, 2025 entitled, “American Nightmare” survivors Denise Huskins, Aaron Quinn use their trauma to help retrain law enforcement by Julie Watts from CBS News California Investigates...

The Reid Technique: Science-Based Interviewing

Feb 06, 2025

See our new Investigtor Tip, The Reid Technique: Science-Based Interviewing, whichbegins as follows:

For over 7 decades, the Reid Technique has employed and has been based on “science-based methodology.”

At the American...

John E. Reid and Associates files lawsuit against James L. Trainum

Feb 05, 2025

John Reid and Associates Files a Defamation Lawsuit:

On December 18, 2024, John Reid and Associates, Inc. (“Reid”) filed a civil lawsuit for money damages against James L. Trainum in the Superior...

The Assessment of Disputed Confessions

Jan 20, 2025

Abstract

Claims of false confessions lead to individualized case assessment embedded in often-elusive understandings of the potential causes of false confessions. Details from undisputed false confessions are the source of empirical knowledge...

False Confessions: An Integrative Review of the Phenomenon

Jan 20, 2025

Behavioral Sciences & the Law

ACCESS

False Confessions: An Integrative Review of the

Phenomenon

Michael Welner1,2 | Matt DeLisi3

ABSTRACT

Confessions are an important evidentiary part of the legal process, and false...

Article Completely Misrepresents the Reid Technique

Jan 14, 2025

In an article entitled, False Confessions, Technology, and Where We Go From Here, written by Brian Wallace and published on January 13, 2025 online at WebProNews , the author describes a number...

"Solving Crimes in Deceptive Ways: Should Police Lie to Suspects to Prove Murder?” Reid Response

Jan 06, 2025

A recent article entitled, "Solving Crimes in Deceptive Ways: Should Police Lie to Suspects to Prove Murder?” by Clarence Walker was published Jan2, 2025 online at NewsBlaze

Here is our response (which...

Correcting the Record

Dec 30, 2024

On December 23, 2024, the Los Angeles Times published a story entitled “Cops lie to suspects during interrogations. Should detectives stick to the truth?”

The article describes a case in which a...