The following are Investigator Tips that we have posted on our website in recent years that will provide helpful information to Law Enforcement Officers and Attorneys who deal with the issues of false and/or coerced confessions in their cases.

The Reid Technique

The Reid Technique is a Non-confrontational, Non-accusatory Process

The Reid Behavior Analysis Interview: Part 1: Do the Case Facts and Evidence Support the Subject's Story? Part 2: The Interview Structure and the Value of Behavior Symptom Analysis

Reid Policy on the Use of Deception During an Interrogation

The Reid Technique: International Research and the Value of Behavior Symptom Analysis

Principles of Practice: How to Conduct Proper Investigative Interviews and Interrogations

The Use of the Baiting Technique

A Description of The Reid Technique

What Critics of Law Enforcement Interrogations and the Reid Technique Say

Richard Leo's Boilerplate Statement Regarding Police Interrogation Practices

Responding to a False Confession Expert in Your Case

What Do False Confession Experts Say in Their Reports?

The Disingenuous Testimony from Social Psychologists About the Reid Technique

A General Outline of Richard Leo's Testimony on False Confession Issues and Reid Responses

What False Confession Experts Say About the Reid Technique and Our Responses

The Truth About the Research Social Psychologists Use as the Basis for Testimony Regarding False and/or Coerced Confessions

Interrogation and Confession Judicial Decisions Organized by Subject Matter

False Confessions: The Issues to be Considered

What Questions Should be Asked to Determine the Voluntariness and Validity of a Subject’s Confession?

Clarifying Misrepresentations About Interrogation Techniques (updated May 2023)