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Their wordsThe Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.
Our reading
A confession stops the investigation that would have cleared the innocent person who gave it.
Their wordsA confession, though, will sometimes preclude police from doing the very sort of investigation that would prove the confessor’s innocence.
Their wordsCanada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.