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Police Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 7.1M views · 2022-04-18 · 24:43

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Overview

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on police interrogation tactics and how they can lead innocent people to give false confessions.

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Cited in threads on coerced confessions and plea bargains, and praised for well-researched coverage.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2022–2023

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Law, policing & justiceMedia, journalism & propaganda
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soraminazuki · 2023-05 · Recommendation

His show does proper research and points to numerous actual cases of harm before making a claim. Detaining suspects for long periods of time and forcing confessions is a topic that comes up repeatedly, each time with different examples. I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that this isn't anything of substance. [VIDEO]

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moffkalast · 2023-06 · Reference

Or you know, it being the standard work process for police these days apparently, so they can pat themselves on the back and go home early: [VIDEO]

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m000 · 2023-02 · Reference

Is this news at this point? Last year there was a whole episode of Last Week Tonight with main subject "Police interrogations and false confession" [1] documenting exactly how innocent people are coerced into guilty pleas. [1] [VIDEO]

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