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Those 5 teens were up to no good in Central Park. They were a wolf pack, predators looking for a victim.
Just as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Mumia Abu Jamal, they had no solid alibi; meaning, they were right THERE at the scene of the crime.
'Nuff said about these hoaxers.
Very true. NYPD coerced and beat up Richard hauptmann to confess for kidnapping chalres Lindberg baby. This happened in the 1930s btw.
In the 1930s, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't have been grounds for excluding the evidence. Sweating confessions out of people with a bit of violence only became a troublesome political issue in the mid-30s and the Supreme Court took a few years to react.
It gets results, and as you can tell from this thread, lots of people are more interested in getting a conviction than in seeing justice being done.
For anyone interested, I recommend this excellent webcomic - this would be the start of the chapter on the Reid technique, but it's cool throughout.
You really need to read up on interrogation techniques. Police has had decades to perfect them, and they work. They work very well, in fact, in getting confessions. It's just that they work so well, people confess to stuff they provably didn't do.
As for the CP5, they were subject to even cruder versions and rougher methods- but hey, we got a conviction and that's what counts.
No he is asking how police coerced or manipulated information out of the suspects which contained information the police didnt know and only someone present at the crime scene would.
No he is asking how police coerced or manipulated information out of the suspects which contained information the police didnt know and only someone present at the crime scene would.
"Oh, we totally didn't know about that. Pinky-swear. Besides, why add other suspect that we'd have to go out and look for? We have 5 perfectly fine suspects in custody. We can easily score a conviction and move on, and isn't that what police work is all about?"
"Oh, we totally didn't know about that. Pinky-swear. Besides, why add other suspect that we'd have to go out and look for? We have 5 perfectly fine suspects in custody. We can easily score a conviction and move on, and isn't that what police work is all about?"
Dear Lord. A blog that claims to be libertarian suddenly finds itself solidly on the side of the government bending the rules a bit. Coerced confessions? A bit of the old Reid Technique? Meh, it's all good, they were bound to be guilty of something.
The small-government advocates in this thread sure like their government when it comes to forcing down the right sort of people. Including their great white hope.
Were the friends and acquaintances also "coerced by violence"?
I don't. Heck, I've trained with law enforcement back in Europe - for decades. But I intensely dislike police misconduct. You should, too.
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