fact, it works too well. Doesn’t matter if you’re actually guilty or not: it’ll get a confession out of most people. Canada and the UK have both dropped Reid-style interrogation, finding it to be coercive and unethical. And yet this is still the dominant method used by law enforcement in the United States today. As if that weren’t enough, it’s also not scientifically valid. Aldert Vrij, a professor at the University of Portsmouth and a leading expert on lie detection, says the cues it relies on are not predictive. After Reid training, law enforcement officers’ ability to detect deception gets
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