Thesis 9/14

Is there a way to get information out of a person without making them feel like a victim or freaking them out completely when interrogating them? Today I found out that many people lie during an interrogation because either they were tired and wanted to get out, brainwashed into thinking they did it, being at a wrong spot during the wrong time, just saying what the police want to hear, etc. A case that really stood out to me was the Peter Reilly case. This case happened in 1973 and back then, 18 year old Peter was the primary homicide suspect. They accused him of killing his mother when he clearly didn't do it. He had passed a polygraph test but the police told him he didn't. He was interrogated for eight hours when he finally cracked. He told the police he did it but the timing was wrong and fast forward to the future, he's a free man. While reading this case, it was shocking to see that there are frequent wrong-man convictions and one out of four of them are false confessions. Imagine how many people are sitting in a cell right now for something they didn't do, that's way too many to imagine. These people are confessing and wasting precious years of freedom. This further proves that the justice system isn't about truth.