Beyond Good Cop Rhetorical Analysis

I choose to write about Douglas Starr’s responses to his interview with Terry Gross from Fresh Air about his article in the New Yorker called “Beyond Good Cop/ Bad Cop: A Look At Real-Life Interrogations.” Starr’s interview covered the topic “Do Police Interrogations Techniques Produce False Confessions?” The bottom line is yes. However, in this on air radio interview with Starr, he compares how two techniques frequently used by law enforcement in the United States with the Reid Method and another used predominately by areas in Europe with the PEACE method underline issues that cause these wrongful convictions. Starr’s discusses how the America’s law enforcement has monopolized the Reid techniques in the protocols of interrogation techniques under these premises of catching people in a lie that is paired with anxiety attributes from physical and verbal characteristics. Starr’s belief this is not true due to the out dated scientific data used by scientists that leads police to faulty premises to accuse innocence people in crimes that they have not committed. However, I believe these …show more content…
I do not agree with knowing that the circumstances of the case law enforcement agency can use deceit to lure in a subject that is already under anxiety and not mentally truly understand the circumstances or technicalities of the questioning techniques place upon them by the interrogator. The pressure techniques utilized by departments straddles the line of violating the Fifth Amendment rights under the Miranda v. Arizona from self-incrimination due to the accusatory statements from being pressured by the interrogation techniques that leads suspects failing to remain