| Newsletter | November 1, 2012 |
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In this issue we continue to bring you important training topics of current interest.
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Innocent Suspects' Response to Interrogation
by John Reid & Associates
The process of interrogation is reserved for suspects whose guilt is reasonably certain. This assessment may be based on a combination of forensic or testimonial evidence implicating the suspect in the crime, circumstantial evidence revealing the suspect's opportunity, access, motive and propensity to commit the crime, or the suspect's behavior, e.g., going into seclusion following the crime, catching the suspect in a known lie, etc.
At John E. Reid and Associates about 80% of suspects who are interrogated provide a corroborated, trustworthy confession.1 We believe that many of the remaining 20% of suspects are guilty of the crime but simply resistant to legally permissible interrogation tactics. However, some of those suspects were deemed by the investigator to be innocent of committing the crime resulting in the termination of the interrogation. This web tip addresses the typical behavior of an innocent suspect during an interrogation.
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It Could Happen To You---Does Your Agency Have Your Back?
By Trinka Porrata
Drug Consultant & President of Project GHB
Retired LAPD (25 years)
So you go out for an evening with friends, planning to have just a couple of drinks. But something goes terribly wrong. You lose hours of time, behave bizarrely and wake up with a life quite changed. You have been drugged---for sexual assault or robbery or credit card fraud-but your strange behavior or the results of your behavior have taken center stage. You wake up in a hospital, a holding cell, a jail cell and you or someone else could be seriously injured......or dead. Will the responding agency and/or your own agency recognize that YOU are a victim? Or will your job be on the line due to their blindness to drugging issues? Will your agency have your back? Maybe not.
Odds are that you will remain the suspect, not the victim, even as the "investigation" plays out. Granted, if your behavior resulted in tragedy to others such as a DUI with injuries or fatalities, it is a complex issue. But underlying circumstances should not be overlooked. Mitigating circumstances can be very real. And, I hate to say it because I truly hate to play the sex card and seldom do, but the truth is "especially if you are female." Based on numerous officer-involved cases I've been contacted about, the sad truth is that internal investigations often aren't impressively thorough on this topic. Even efforts to "cover" for you may backfire and actually prevent the truth from prevailing.
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Considerations for trainers contemplating their own training company
Reprinted from Law Officer
By R.K. Miller
Running your own training company can be incredibly rewarding. It isn't easy and don't expect to get rich, but if you want to help cops to improve their tactics and safety and you genuinely enjoy doing so, consider it seriously.
It's a question I've been asked before: "How did you do it?" This could apply to a lot of things, but I'm not copping out to anything more than this month's topic: How I started my training company. This question typically comes from instructors who want to do the same. For those of you who've reached this point in your instructional careers, I thought that this month it might be helpful to discuss my experience.
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