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 elements of the Reid Technique.

He suggests that the Reid Technique, “employs disinformation to reinforce the power and authority of the police while disregarding the harm caused to the individual suspect..” and that the technique produces false confessions. The author further suggests that the technique relies on inducing psychological stress to elicit confessions, and that “the technique is designed to induce psychological stress through weaponizing authority, isolation, lying about evidence, and internalization.”

The author certainly does not understand the Reid Technique process, and the fact that we always begin with a non-accusatory, non-confrontational information-gathering interview designed to develop the subject’s activities at the time of the issue that is under investigation; their relationship, if any, to the victim, their alibi, etc.