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...

What Constitutes "Custody" and Related Miranda Issues

Nov 02, 2022

Miranda: What Constitutes “Custody”; Effect of Patting Down a Suspect; Factors for Determining Miranda Custody; Body Camera Footage; Effect of Frisking the Arrestee and Informing Him He Is Under Arrest; Effect of...

The Reid App Has Been Updated

Oct 27, 2022

The Reid App has been updated (October 2022). Here is the Table of Contents:

Overview of the Reid Technique

Behavior Symptom Analysis

New California Law Significantly Limits the Ability of Police to Question Suspects Under 17 Years of Age

Oct 05, 2022

California has enacted legislation that significantly limits law enforcement’s ability to solve crimes committed by individuals 17 years old or younger

Clearly there should be safeguards for the questioning of all...

Catalytic Converter Theft: Converting denails to admissions

Sep 02, 2022

Louis Senese, our Corporate Vice President, recently published an article in Police 1 - "Catalytic Converter Theft: Converting denials to admissions (Reprinted with permission)

Catalytic converter theft is skyrocketing. They are...

Suspect must “unequivocally invoke his right to counsel” while in custody in order to bar the police from further interrogation

Jul 05, 2022

Mr. Manak is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Illinois Law School at Chicago,

formerly the John Marshall Law School; and has served on the faculty of NorthwesternUniversity and...

Principles of Practice: How to Conduct Proper Interviews and Interrogations

Apr 26, 2022

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

We posted the May/June Investigator Tip on our website under the Investigator Tips tab. Here are the initial paragraphs.

Since 194...

Duped, by Saul Kassin

Apr 02, 2022

In his new book entitled, Duped, Professor Saul Kassin discusses why some innocent people confess to crimes that they did not commit. In almost every instance false confessions were the result...

Reid YouTube Channel for the Media

Mar 22, 2022

Over the years descriptions of the Reid Technique in the media have often been inaccurate and reflect a general lack of understanding about the Reid process.

In an effort to...

The Reid Technique For Child Abuse Investigations - Part Two – The Investigative interview

Mar 16, 2022

We have released the 2nd of a 3 part online video training program on Child Abuse Investigations - The Investigative Interview.

This one-hour online video training program is Part Two in...

Creating a False Narrative - How They Intentionlly Mislead You

Feb 26, 2022

Creating a False Narrative - How They Intentionally Mislead You

Almost without exception, when a defense attorney, social psychologist or academician describes the Reid Technique, they start the discussion with statements along...

Development of the Reid Technique - updated 2022

Feb 25, 2022

Development of the Reid Technique (updated 2022)

The Reid Technique has evolved extensively over the years to become the most current and up to date training program available on investigative interviewing and...

Resistance to Elicitation and Interrogation

Feb 24, 2022

80 APA Magazine 2022, 55 (1)

In order to maintain their cover, particularly during deployment, Intelligence Officers and Special Operations Forces must always be alert to seemingly innocent contacts with people who...

Author Makes Numerous Erroneous Statements about the Reid Technique

Feb 23, 2022

(Dr. Miko M. Wilford wrote a column entitled, "What You Should Know if You Are Interrogated" in Psychology Today, in which she made several erroneous statements about the Reid Technique. Here is...

Proposed California Law Essentially Prohibits Police from Interrogating Suspects Under 25 Years of Age

Feb 22, 2022

Assembly Bill 2644 was introduced by Assembly Member Holden on February 18, 2022.

The enactment of this legislation would gut law enforcement’s opportunity to solve crimes committed by individuals under...

Smash-and-grab crooks: How to grab confessions

Feb 21, 2022

Shame on individuals blaming victims for not having enough security to defend against theft as recently suggested by Chicago's mayor. My home town of Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, recently...

Wikipedia Misinformation About The Reid Technique

Feb 17, 2022

There are numerous references to the Reid Technique in Wikipedia....here are a few of the misinformed statements that they have made.

Wikipedia: The Reid Technique is a method of interrogation. The...

New Washington law requires minors have access to attorney before police interrogation

Jan 05, 2022

New Washington law requires minors have access to attorney before police interrogation

(as reported by Angela Kerndl, KOMONEWS, Washington)

Tuesday, January 4th 2022

YAKIMA -- A new law now in effect in...

Interrogation techniques to snag carjackers

Dec 21, 2021

On December 13, 2021 Police 1 published the following article written by our company Vice President, Louis C. Senese.

Mental Illness and False Confessions: A Wakeup Call to Investigators

Dec 16, 2021

On December 15, 2021 The Crime Report published the following:

In the 1967 edition of their...

Interrogation tactics to snag porch pirates

Dec 13, 2021

On December 8, 2021 Police 1 published the following article written by our company Vice President, Louis C. Senese.