Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Hayley Cleary, Ph.D., a professor ...

In a pilot program at two precinct houses, the NYPD will start filming police interrogations. On the pro side, the American Bar Association and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, who say it’ll ...

They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...

Understanding how law enforcement operates within the legal system isn’t just about satisfying curiosity — it’s about protecting yourself. Police officers receive extensive training on tactics that ...

Watch any cop show on television — we’re looking at you, all versions of “Law & Order” — and the use of deception during scenes of a suspect’s interrogation, in essence lying to a suspect to get a ...

In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to ...

Waterboarding? Hasn’t been used in years. Walling, stress positions, abdominal slaps? They’re no longer allowed. But if the CIA can no longer use the interrogation techniques described in chilling ...

Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...

NASHUA — New evidence claims that a former Nashua police captain may have threatened a murder suspect during a 1988 interrogation, allegedly telling the suspect that he would face the death penalty ...

Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana police. He was released after his father showed up alive and well. (Allen J ...