Police are explicitly allowed to lie during interrogations as upheld by the Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_v._Cupp https://en.wikipedia.or

Police are explicitly allowed to lie during interrogations as upheld by the Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_v._Cupp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_v._Cupp Persuasive interrogation like this is widely used across the United States to elicit confessions or convince people to accept plea bargains, even in cases where they are innocent, because our justice system does not actually have the capacity to provide everyone an actual trial. The risk of carrying a case to trial, even if you're innocent, can be significantly higher than entering a guilty plea and accepting a bargain. https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2018/07/31/are-innocent-people-pleading-guilty-a-new-report-says-yes/?sh=b136b5251937 https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2018/07/31/are-inno... An infinitesimal amount of cases actually go to trial in America: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-federal-criminal-defendants-go-to-trial-and-most-who-do-are-found-guilty/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f...