Criminals In An Interrogation Room Analysis

In the excerpt, the author compares the officers and criminals in an interrogation room through the means of analogies. The analogy that the author uses to compare the two is that the officers imagine a small opening or “window” that is the escape route that every suspect tries to reach so they can escape the interrogation and resume back to their regular lives . The suspect must carefully choose his words carefully for every word that he or she utters is heard and not taken back, which becomes a game of words against words. The suspect pulls every trick that he or she may have up her sleeve in order to not give away any obvious information that leads them to being the perpetrator of such crimes that were committed. Most commonly, the guilty …show more content…
Both the officer and the suspect try to get on equal ground where there is none in order to see who wins the game of betrayal. The author speaks to the people that are Police Officers and even criminals by comparing both of the two with analogies, showing the relationship shared between the two and is seen from “ the window is as much the suspect’s fantasy and the detective’s mirage.” This also speaks to the audience who have never been in an interrogation room by telling what the main goal of both parties to achieve is. The author’s main purpose in writing this was also to explain, with analogies, the setup of an interrogation by describing the readiness that both the officer and the suspect have in common in order to escape or to …show more content…
This also gives a better understanding of how and what goes down in an interrogation room, which as stated earlier a big game of psychology and it is all in who outsmarts the other one. The emotional appeal of West Baltimore’s feeling towards murders as being nothing but a simple thing to forget and not think about gives the thought of how corrupted the city has become from all the crimes. This also gives us a little insight on how certain perpetrators are caught and shows how talented the officers are in being able to see through the lies that the suspects tell