Throughout all of our lives, the reliability of law enforcement is something that is cemented into us since the very beginning. If there is a fire, call 911. If you are bleeding a lot, call 911. If you feel unsafe, call 911. In the case of any emergency, call 911 and they will take care of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What happens when the very people that we have been coaxed to call when we feel unsafe, are out to get us? Are looking to get something from us<\/em>, rather than us getting something from them<\/em>? The answer is, in short, violence. Lives being taken, families being separated, and in the case of the Reid Technique, freedom being seized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a huge Criminal Minds<\/em> fan, I have seen the Reid Technique being used many times before. At first glance, it seems like a great way to get guilty parties to confess to violent crimes. However, when we get a closer look, it is more like manipulation of vulnerability. Essentially, it is gaslighting a possibly innocent person into believing that they committed a crime, or making them feel so unsafe in their environment that the best option for them would be to confess to a crime that they did not commit. Even if someone is innocent, that environment would make anyone sweat: being told that no one believes you, they already have evidence against you, and the sooner you confess to this crime, the shorter your already likely years-long-sentence will be. Being yelled at, degraded, and promised an unfortunate fate by a group of people with infamous centuries-long violence and racism issues (i.e. all instances of police brutality) would make any sane person want to leave that environment as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, a man named Marcellius Bradford fell victim to this flaw in our system. He confessed to a rape and murder of a woman that he did not commit in 1986, and implicated three other innocent people in his confession. It was the result of a plea deal that he was pressured into taking. Thankfully, him and the three other victims of law enforcement were exonerated several years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Throughout all of our lives, the reliability of law enforcement is something that is cemented into us since the very beginning. If there is a fire, call 911. If you are bleeding a lot, call 911. If you feel unsafe, … Continue reading