Guilty until proven innocent.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters use it to show that behavior in interrogations is not a reliable sign of guilt and that police lie to innocent people.
What it is
A compilation of police interrogations of innocent suspects who behave in very different ways yet are treated as guilty. It illustrates how interrogation tactics and detectives' assumptions can distort the truth.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends oftenwrong · 2021-03 · on “How can you tell if someone is lying?”
This video is relevant: [this video] It's about interrogation, and the common notion that a guilt can be inferred by the suspect's behaviour. It shows two example interrogations of innocent suspects, each displaying completely different behaviour.
Cites meowface · 2021-06 · on “The mind of a murderer: the power and limits of forensic psychiatry”
>It's not really about leverage or power. It's more of a strategic setting where the winning move is either to be 100% truthful (if you're innocent - and even JCS acknowledges this!) or not to play. It seems to be the opposite. This JCS video shows 100% non-guilty people being 100% truthful, and their truthful statements are regularly seen as further evidence of their criminality: [this video] Whether you're completely guilty, partly guilty, or completely non-guilty, the safest thing to do is to say absolutely nothing. >It can however be strategically beneficial to the innocent if done lightly and with proper foreknowledge, because if you can precisely and vigorously call the interrogator's BS ab
Cites lm28469 · 2021-07 · on “Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations”
If you're interested there are plenty of interrogation videos on yt, some by the FBI are particularly interesting. Sometimes they have a pretty good case but getting a confession tremendously speed up the process so they lie to get confessions. They also can lie to trigger responses and see how the suspect react, guilty people seem to react in way different ways than innocent ones. It's obviously not an exact science, even though it's heavily studied and has some psychology compounds, but it worked and put countless number of guilty people behind the bars A source I like is: [LINK] This timestamped video is an example of a cop lying (to innocent people): [this video]