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They're allowed to in investigations: "we have a witness who saw you do it" will sometimes cause actually guilty people to confess, or to start naming accomplic
by eplanit 5y ago
They're allowed to in investigations: "we have a witness who saw you do it" will sometimes cause actually guilty people to confess, or to start naming accomplices, etc. Or, "we think this was an accident" can elicit "it was, I didn't mean to do it" as a confession.
- tomalpha 5y agoThe difficulty seems to be that it can sometimes cause innocent people to confess too Edit: adding this link to the excellent and oft-cited "Don't talk to the police [even if you're completely innocent]" lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
- brobdingnagians 5y agoI thought we used to call that 'fraud'.... If the police are lying to the people, then why can't we assume the witnesses are lying... The police are supposed to be more reliable, after all.
- mrweasel 5y agoThat's specifically one of the reason for Denmark to recommend that if arrested in the US you contact the Danish embassy and wait for them to send someone to help you. The idea that the police would lie and claim to have evidence is just completely foreign to us.