Investigative journalist writing on policing, forensics and wrongful convictions at The Watch, previously at the Washington Post, Huffington Post and Reason. His reporting on the Mississippi medical examiner Steven Hayne and the bite-mark analyst Michael West preceded nine exonerations.
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2 of Radley Balko's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Second-order thinking.
Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.
Their wordsThe old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.
Ask "and then what?": follow a decision past its first effect to the ones that come after.
Their wordsA confession, though, will sometimes preclude police from doing the very sort of investigation that would prove the confessor’s innocence.