The pandemic has forced police to conduct interrogations from a distance—some say it could lead to fewer false confessions. elibhager reports for MarshallProj USATODAY
— could actually make detectives better interviewers.
As early as mid-March, officers in Miami were weighing the health risks of every potential interrogation, according to Armando R. Aguilar, assistant chief of the Miami Police Department. They are now only bringing suspects inside — into their squad cars and offices — in the most serious cases, including murders, rapes and armed robberies.
The main exception, Vanore noted, is in the most sensitive cases such as those handled by the department’s special victims unit, in which interviewees are so vulnerable that they need to come inside to be sure what they are saying is confidential. Thompson noted that manipulative tactics meant to make interviewees feel physically vulnerable and therefore dependent on their interrogator’s mercy are more likely to make themTo be sure, there are downsides to the dramatic shift in interview practices going on nationwide. Trying to convince a witness to a traumatizing crime to speak up is clearly more difficult in public than in private.
“The pandemic may actually heighten the legal tension between what is objectively versus subjectively a situation of officially being in custody,” she said.
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