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The police can legally lie to you during an interrogation and young people are especially vulnerable to their tactics.
Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, arriving to court. (Image: New York Daily News Archive)
When people are brought in for questioning by police, they are expected to tell the truth. Most people would assume that goes both ways — that the police must also be truthful during interrogations, but the reality is that the police can lie to you during an interrogation, and it is not uncommon for them to do so.
But why would police lie? During an interrogation, officers may lie about evidence they have to pressure you into confessing to a crime they believe you have committed — even if you are innocent.
That’s what happened in the infamous case of the Exonerated Five (previously known as the Central Park Five). During individual interrogations, police told each of the five teens that the others had implicated them in committing the crime. In Connecticut, police falsely told 16-year-old Bobby Johnson that they had evidence he had committed the murder and that he would face the death penalty, but if he admitted guilt, they could make sure he would only get probation. As a result, he falsely confessed, with police eliciting three different confessions until his story “fit” the evidence. Both of these cases involved police officers lying to teenagers. Young people are especially vulnerable to falsely confessing under the pressure of police deception tactics. Today, there is a growing movement for change in a number of states across the US and we have the power to protect people from police deception by supporting legislation that reduces the risk of false or unreliable confessions.
Here’s what you should know about law enforcement’s use of deception in interrogations.
1. It is almost always legal for police to lie during interrogations.
Police have long been prohibited from using physical force during interrogations, but they are still allowed to use a variety of powerful psychological ploys to extract confessions from people. During an interrogation, police can lie and make false claims. And these tactics can pressure and terrorize innocent people into falsely confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.
For example, law enforcement can lie to a defendant and say their friend or alleged co-defendant confessed, saying they committed the crime together, even when that person has not confessed to anything. Police can also claim to have evidence, such as fingerprints, linking the subject of the interrogation to the crime even if no such evidence exists. These kinds of lies about having evidence have long been identified as risk factors for false confessions and have contributed to some of the most notorious wrongful convictions, like those of the Exonerated Five and Bobby Johnson.
2. False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful conviction in the U.S.
Of the 375 DNA exonerations the Innocence Project has recorded, false confessions contributed to 29% of wrongful convictions .
In order to secure a confession, police often speak as if they already “know” you are guilty during an interrogation. For example, a detective might start out an interrogation by telling a suspect that the results of their investigation clearly indicate that they are guilty, even when the investigation is not yet complete. Interrogation methods that are guilt-presumptive can blind interrogators to the truth of someone’s innocence, encouraging them to apply more coercion until the person gives them a confession.
3. Minors are particularly vulnerable to deceptive police tactics.
Young people are especially vulnerable to falsely confessing under the pressure of deception because the parts of the brain that are responsible for future planning, judgment, and decision-making are not fully developed until a person reaches their mid-twenties.
Of the 268 exonerees who were wrongly convicted as children, 34% falsely confessed , whereas 10% of exonerees who were wrongly convicted above the age of 18 falsely confessed, according to data from the National Registry of Exonerations . Coercive and deceptive interrogation methods, coupled with the recognized vulnerabilities and susceptibilities of children as a group, has led to an unacceptably high rate of false confessions among juvenile suspects .
Through such tactics, the police will try to convince a person that denials are pointless, and confessing is the only option. Because youth are more susceptible to social influence, police may also present themselves as “friendly” officers who want to help and will claim to show some leniency if they confess. This approach puts even more pressure on young people to falsely confess to a crime they didn’t commit.
4. Police deception is currently allowed in every state, but that could be starting to change.
Illinois , Oregon , and Utah have passed legislation to protect juveniles from the use of police deception during interrogations, but the use of these tactics against adults is still legal in all 50 states. Several other states, including Delaware and New York, are taking steps to end police deception in interrogations altogether.
Delaware House Bill 419 introduced by State Representative Minor-Brown would ban law enforcement from lying about evidence or leniency to a juvenile suspect in an interrogation.
While New York Senate Bill 324 introduced by State Senator Zellnor Myrie would ban police deception in the interrogation room while requiring that courts evaluate the reliability of confession evidence before allowing it to be used. Currently, confessions only have to be voluntary to be used as evidence. The reliability of the confession, including whether it was obtained through coercion and deception, is not considered. In this bill, judges will be able to look into how reliable the confession evidence was.
5. You can help end police deception in interrogations.
In the 1969 Frazier v. Cupp case, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to allow a confession into evidence even though police falsely told the suspect that his cousin had already confessed and implicated him in the crime. That ruling has since been used throughout the country to sanction police deception in the interrogation room. But now, for the first time in U.S. history, three states — Illinois, Oregon, and Utah — have passed laws to begin to protect youth from coercive tactics, and many states are considering similar measures.
If you live in any of these states, you have the power to help end police deception by letting your lawmakers know that you support their efforts to ban these practices.

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A young girl was missing, police said, and they suspected she was hiding out at her friend’s home in Carpentersville, Ill. Officers showed up at the 16-year-old boy’s home twice to look for her, each time when his parents weren’t home. On the second visit, the situation escalated into illegal territory, the boy’s attorney says.
Video shows one of the officers opening the door from the outside. “Your door’s open,” one of the officers is heard saying in a home-security video obtained by ABC7 Chicago .
Carpentersville family sues after video shows police raiding home, grabbing teen by neck https://t.co/DvkywsBg3y pic.twitter.com/Bbc3x0hYk7
“Ah! Yeah, sir, I don’t feel comfortable opening this door without my parents here, sir,” the boy is heard saying.
That’s when one of the officers enters the home and grabs the teen around the throat, knocking over a nearby chair, before pinning him down on a sofa. The second officer can be seen running upstairs.
The officer who was holding the teen down by his neck continued to do so, until the boy told the officers they were being recorded, according to the lawsuit filed by the boy and his family last week. That’s when they started looking around for the cameras. Then they arrested the teen. His brother watched the entire incident in horror, according to court documents.
The identity of neither the boy nor his brother has been made public.
“I did get scared, because I never expected something like this could happen to me,” the boy told ABC7Chicago in an interview that showed only his hands. ABC7 blurred his face in the video, provided by the family.
The family is suing the village of Carpentersville, Carpentersville Police Cmdr. Paul Bryan and the unknown Carpentersville police officers for searching the home without a warrant, among other counts that include false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy, according to the lawsuit.
A friend of the teen’s ran away from home June 13, according to the lawsuit. He says he called an Uber for her and told her to go home. That same day, the girl’s parents went with police officers to his home, knowing that the mother wasn’t there, the lawsuit alleges.
But the girl didn’t go home, according to the suit, and that’s what prompted police to show up at the boy’s door with the girl’s parents.
While the police were searching the house, the detained teen’s brother called their mother at work, crying. Violet Hernandez spoke to the officers and asked them why they were in her home. According to the lawsuit, she told the officers they didn’t have a warrant. At that point, Hernandez said, the officer hung up the phone.
By the time Hernandez got home, the officers were gone. But they returned to the house the next day, again when Hernandez wasn’t there. That’s when the physical confrontation occurred, the family attorney says.
“It was an illegal search of this home. It was an illegal seizure of that minor, and ultimately it was a false arrest,” Keenan Saulter, the family’s attorney, told ABC7 Chicago.
Neither Saulter nor Hernandez responded to Washington Post requests for comment.
Bradford Stewart, attorney for the village of Carpentersville, said the village and its police department take all police interactions with the public seriously.
“What is known is that the police were responding to a request from a neighboring law enforcement agency to locate a missing female minor who was last seen at the residence in which the alleged incident occurred,” he said in an emailed statement. “A third-party investigation was initiated to address the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the involved officers’ actions. At this point, the investigation is ongoing.”
Stewart said the village is waiting on the results of the investigation before making any further comments.
The legal age for a child to stay at home unsupervised in Illinois is 14. In April, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a nearly unanimous vote to lower the age to 12 . The bill went to the Illinois Senate in May.

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Disturbing new video shows the moment an Australian police department employee corners a 13-year-old girl in an elevator and gropes her as she frantically attempts to get away.
Glenn Roche, 54, who was found guilty of indecent assault this week, is seen in the footage chasing the youngster into the elevator after a day out with her family, the New Zealand Herald reported on Thursday.
Roche seems to be playfully chasing the girl but then the sicko grabs her, fondles her and tries to kiss her while she tries to wrestle free, the footage posted by TVNZ-TV shows.
The girl later told authorities that she still suffers nightmares from the harrowing July 2019 assault, according to the Herald.
But Roche told the judge he was just playing around and claimed there was “no sexual gratification on my behalf.”
“My hands have slid up her body as she slid to the ground,” the sicko told police. “My mind has gone off on a tangent like this is a challenge to me. I can get her and give her a kiss on the cheek like her two sisters and mum.”
“She contributed to that occurring by releasing her body weight and sliding through my hands,” he said, blaming his tiny victim.
Police said Roche had been out with the girl’s mom and siblings. It is unclear what his relationship to the girl and her family was.
The judge wasn’t buying his excuse, however, and found Roche guilty.
He was also suspended from the police department, where he worked as a civilian employee, accor
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