Recording of interrogations from start to finish as directed by California’s SB 511 is the right thing to do
“Recording of interrogations from start to finish as directed by California’s SB 511 is the right thing to do. Failure to use cheap and available technology to build strong cases against the guilty and to protect the innocent is wrong. Recording interrogations needs to be mandatory, with rules and sanctions. If sanctions are not in place then public confidence is undermined by the few unscrupulous among us. When videotaping was first forced upon us by the D.C. City Council, we fought it tooth and nail. Now, in the words of a top commander, we would not do it any other way.”
I Took A False Confession – So Don’t Tell Me It Doesn’t Happen!, Seeing the Forest, September 20, 2007
I hope our so-called governor signs this one into law.
