By John Reid & Associates
Properly socialized people do not enjoy lying. None of us invite the feelings of guilt, fear or anxiety associated with telling a lie. On the other hand, we also don't like to tell the truth when the truth may cause loss of pride, esteem, income or freedom. Consequently, when a deceptive suspect is interviewed he tries to respond to questions in a manner that avoids telling a lie, but also avoids incriminating himself.
A common technique to accomplish this goal is evasion, where the suspect answers a question with a question. This is illustrated in a television advertisement where a family no longer has money to afford sushi. The daughter, holding an empty gold fish bowl asks, "Has anyone seen Captain Stuey and Little Miss Neptune?" The father, in between bites of sushi responds, "Did you look all over the place - under your desk?"
An evasive response is easy to identify and represents a fairly crude effort to avoid telling a lie. There are, however, more sophisticated verbal techniques deceptive suspects utilize to avoid lying to an investigator. This web tip addresses these word games
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by Val Van Brocklin
Switching the freight train's tracks
If I needed any more evidence that social media has pervaded every crevice of our lives, I got it in recent weeks.
- The Social Network - The movie, released last year. As of January 12, 2011 it had won Best Picture from all leading trophy groups: National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and National Society of Film Critics and was the odds on favorite for the Golden Globe and Oscar.
- Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook's founder and CEO became TIME magazine's youngest Person of the Year.
- Mark Zuckerberg - same as above, became the youngest billionaire.
- Facebook hit 500 million users. That would make it the 3rd largest nation - behind China and India and well ahead of the U.S.
- Social media has now closed the parentheses on our romantic lives. After getting started with eHarmony or Match.com we deal with a bad break up with sites like IHateMyEx.com or YouBrokeUpHow.com.
- There's even a web site and new book to help us deal with our digital afterlife.
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by Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith
Yes, This Issue Affects Men and Women Differently
The reality of being a woman in this profession is that you have to take your gear off every time you go to the bathroom. This can be an officer safety issue, a convenience issue and even a health issue. Very often, women will not wear their belt keepers (or forget to put them back on) because it is such an inconvenience to take them on and off multiple times during the shift. Belt keepers are essential for separating your tools and providing a stable platform for accessing them.
They are essential to your officer survival! Women tend to wait too long to relieve themselves, causing bladder or kidney infections, and during menstruation, pregnancy (yes, cops get pregnant) or other "special" times, they need to go to the bathroom more frequently. (One of the best products on the market for female cops is something called "QuickPants;" check out http://www.quickpants.com) Women also can't pull over and take care of business "outdoorsman style," using a bush, tree or ditch.
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U.S. SUPREME COURT
A CONVICTED PRISONER MAY NOT BE IN CUSTODY FOR MIRANDA PURPOSES
Howes v. Fields
March 2012
by Jack Ryan, Attorney
In Howes v. Fields, the United States Supreme Court examined a case where a federal trial court and the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit concluded that a convicted prisoner, while in prison and moved from the general population to an interview room, was "in custody" for Miranda purposes.[i] The United States Supreme Court reversed the lower courts holding that there is no per se rule that a person who is in prison is automatically in custody for purposes of requiring Miranda warnings before questioning on a crime unrelated to their incarceration.
While serving a sentence in a Michigan jail, Randall Fields was escorted by a corrections officer to a conference room where two sheriff's deputies questioned him about allegations that, before he came to prison, he had engaged in sexual conduct with a 12-year-old boy. In order to get to the conference room, Fields had to go down one floor and pass through a locked door that separated two sections of the facility. Fields arrived at the conference room between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and was questioned for between five and seven hours.
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