9 Empathetic Strategy

DOI: 10.4324/9781003263173-12

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes–ah, that is where the art resides.

Arthur Schnabel

I’ve been an instructor teaching detectives and patrol officers the Cognitive Interview (CI) technique since 2002 and recently to criminal justice college students. The CI developed by Fisher and Geiselman (1992) has been considered an advanced interview course that detectives take in order to prepare for their new positions in their investigative bureaus. I have the book in my library, and I refer to it when I teach students and detectives the fundamentals of the CI technique for basic interviewing sessions. I studied the same techniques when I was developing ...

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