New postings on our Investigator Tips and our The Reid Technique Tips (YouTube channel)

Nov 08, 2023

New Postings on our Investigators Tips page:

New...

Creating Acceptance Guidelines For Positions of Trust: Do Recent Court Decisions Require Changes?

Oct 26, 2023

Many Human Research interviewers and Law Enforcement background investigators are unaware that the recent Supreme Court Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA, 6/29/23) decision includes a prohibition against the use of “standardless goals”...

Detective erroneously associates sleep deprivation with the Reid Technique

May 19, 2016

In Crafton v. District of Columbia, et. al., Defendants (September 2015) reference is made by the interrogating detective that when questioning the suspect, Kim Crafton, he connected a “lengthy, grueling 17-hour videotaped...

Not so Fast - the Central Park Jogger case

Aug 14, 2014

As everyone knows the Central Park Jogger case has become a high profile "false confession" case - highlighted by the documentary Ken Burns did about the case.

Not so fast. A...

The Hunting Of Man: Lies, Damn Lies, And Police Interrogations

Jul 15, 2014

Miller W. Shealy, Jr., Associate Professor of Law, Charleston School of Law, has just published an article entitled, The Hunting Of Man: Lies, Damn Lies, And Police Interrogations, in which he discusses...

Arguing for Statewide Uniformity in Recording Custodial Interrogations

May 20, 2014

The American Bar Association has recently published an article by Attorney Thomas Sullivan that discusses the need to establish uniform recording guidelines, Arguing for Statewide Uniformity in Recording Custodial Interrogations. The article...

Attorney Thomas Sullivan list of law enforcement agencies recording interrogations

Mar 31, 2014

For years now Attorney Thomas Sullivan has been collecting information as to which law enforcement agencies are electronically recording their interviews and interrogations. In addition he has prepared a list of states...

New Yorker magazine profiles John E. Reid and Associates

Dec 17, 2013

In the December 9, 2013 issue of New Yorker magazine an article entitled, "The Interview" was published in which the author, Douglass Starr, profiled John E. Reid and Associates. "Today, John E...

Illinois Governor Quinn signs bill expanding recording of police interrogations

Aug 27, 2013

On August 26, 2013 Illinois Governor Quinn signed into law legislation that "expands on legislation passed in 2003 mandating the recording of homicide interrogations. The new requirements will take effect in phases...

Canadian court decisions related to interview, interrogation and confession issues

Jul 25, 2013

For several years now Gino Arcaro has been writing a column for Reid Institute Members that we have posted on our RI Members page about various Canadian court decisions that are related...

Terrorism, Miranda, and Related Matters

Jul 23, 2013

In April of this year, the Congressional Research Service published a document entitled, Terrorism, Miranda, and Related Matters by Charles Doyle, Senior Specialist in American Public Law.

From the Introduction:

Law and Order magazine highlights Reid Interview and Interrogation books

Jul 14, 2013

In the May 2013 issue of Law and Order magazine four Reid books were highlighted

A National Survey of Eyewitness Identification Procedures in Law Enforcement Agencies

Jul 12, 2013

The National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice in March 2013 published the results of an extensive survey of numerous police agencies on their current eyewitness identification...

The Alameda County (CA) District Attorney's Office has published an outstanding and comprehensive article on Miranda Invocations.

Jul 10, 2013

In their recent newsletter the AELE (American for Effective Law Enforcement) highlighted the Alameda County (CA) District Attorney's publication of an article discussing Miranda invocations

Two very informative fraud articles written by Charles Piper, Reid graduate and Certified in the Reid Technique (CRT)

Jan 09, 2013

Mr. Charles Piper has written two excellent fraud articles for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners which we are linking to with their permissions:

"10 popular health care provider fraud schemes"...

A Compendium of law relating to the electronic recording of custodial interrogations

Sep 29, 2012

This article, written by Thomas Sullivan and published in the March/April of Judicature, the publication of the American Judicature Society, details the current laws and judicial decisions related to electronic recording of...

NY Times article references John E. Reid and Associates as teaching interview and interrogation techniques consist with court decisions

Feb 27, 2012

In their February 23, 2012 article, "Why Do Innocent People Confess?" in the discussion of false confessions the author points out that John E. Reid and Associates teaches interview and interrogation techniques...

90% of responding agencies who record their interrogations find the recordings to be helpful

Jan 27, 2012

In January 2012 we included a survey question with our emails announcing the location of a Reid seminar - here are the results

Does your organization video or audio...

IACP model policy for recording interrogations

Jan 16, 2012

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...

The International Investigative Interviewing Research Group founded in 2007

Sep 12, 2011

The International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG) was founded at the University of Teesside in collaboration with the Norwegian Police University College, Oslo and later, with the Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston...