I often found it interesting that so many people confess to crimes they did not commit. After a little bit of research, I discovered the Reid technique, a common interrogation process used in the United States, plays heavily into false confessions. The Reid technique which became popular in 1974, instructing law enforcement how to interrogate those accused of committing a crime. My thesis statement will be as follows, while the Reid technique has been effective in eliciting confessions from guilty suspects, the psychological tactics it employs are in need of reform, as the technique has led to false confessions in 25% of cases where the individual was later exonerated by DNA evidence (Innocent Project, n.d.). The risks associated with the
