What Radley Balko thinks about America

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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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1. 24 Apr 2026

   Our readingThe dominant American police interrogation method is good at producing confessions and bad at producing true ones.

   Their wordsThe Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.

   ↗Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit?radleybalko.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece