In an article by Beth Warren entitled, "States move to require recordings of homicide confessions" she reports that eighteen states require police to record interrogations, at least in homicide cases, and she also reports the following:

"The "International Association of Chiefs of Police has adopted a model policy for handling major crimes that states: "Interrogations and confessions shall be recorded in their entirety starting with the interrogator's entrance into the interview room and concluding upon departure of the interrogator and suspect.

"Such electronic recordings can help protect both the suspect(s) and interviewing officers against potential assertions of police coercion or related interrogation misconduct, and may increase the likelihood of successful prosecution."

The National District Attorneys Association agrees. Executive director Scott Burns said prosecutors used to oppose it.

"Now a lot of defense attorneys and defendants are opposing it," said Burns, a veteran Utah prosecutor. "It's more compelling, powerful evidence," he said.