16 Case Study #2

DOI: 10.4324/9781003263173-22

The Cooperative Eyewitness

When we conduct investigative interviews, we must be sure we are mindful of the bias and the noise associated with the judgments we make in deciding how we are going to interview the eyewitness, otherwise we jeopardize the value of the cognitive evidence we gather. If we do not acknowledge the bias we have in planning the interview, we may find our interview deemed unreliable in a post-evaluation for assessing best practices. We continue reviewing the excerpts from the podcast On Our Watch (2021) by reporter Suki Lewis as her team uncovers astonishing audio recordings from internal investigations conducted by law enforcement agencies in California considering the Right ...

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