What Does your PD Need for Christmas?
Local law enforcement agencies are seeing the value in improving the home base when it comes to doing their job better. Throughout 2015 the stories of crime, terrorism, conflict between the police and the public have hit the headlines. What your law enforcement professionals need this season is a vision that includes improving headquarters. Have […]
Want Fewer False Confessions? Update Interview Rooms and More
For the last decade the American people have asked questions about interrogation, ranging from how far is too far when it comes to interrogation and investigation tactics to why aren’t we going farther when it comes to preventing mass-crimes like those we’ve recently witnessed in San Bernadino and Colorado Springs. What experts are finding is […]
Sleep Cycles between Interviews Build Trust
A good day’s work and then a good night’s sleep. It sounds simple, but the sometimes we find that we intuitively know an answer to improving a complicated process before we ever put it to practice. Of course then we need to put it to practice. This is exactly what one law enforcement agency has […]
More Interview Room Solutions on the Market
More police departments have been taking the step to update their interview rooms, including having top of the line digital and audio recording systems and evidence management systems like iRecord’s. Specifically, law enforcement officers are finding that going seamless in their storage platforms is only making workflow and process run even more smoothly. We love to […]
Persuasion does Not Equal Coercion
In the hit TV series, The Office, Lackawanna County part-time Volunteer Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Schrute’s aggressive approach to getting the information he needs to know is makes a lot of us laugh. We know that he sometimes isn’t all “there,” but how many of us recognize that in some ways we believe that our own […]
Recording Raises the Likelihood of False Confessions—FALSE!
A popular myth that recording a victim’s testimony will raise the likelihood that he or she will make a false confession continues to be debunked. Recording not only helps close cases more quickly, but the right equipment also provides hard evidence that can be saved, retrieved easily at a later date and shared with entire […]
Six Types of Evidence Used in Courts that are Commonly Wrong
The Criminal Justice System is certainly not perfect, yet we continue to look to it to meet out justice. Did you know, however, that three types of evidence used repeatedly and for decades continues to be collected and utilized improperly? A recent Washington Post article identifies six noteworthy trends. We unpack these and share how recording is […]
What Recording Capital Cases Shows PDs about the Impact of Recording Equipment
When the Public Act 93-0206 became effective in Illinois in July of 2005, the Chicago Police Department along with all other PDs throughout Illiniois were required to electronically record all criminal cases that involved voluntary or involuntary manslaughter. This was just the first step. Learn what implications this led to and why recording interviews has […]
How Recording is Ending the He-Said-She-Said Debate
PDs sometimes have the choice of defending their officers against false accusations of coerced confessions or force and when they don’t have proof of what it was that they said, an endless game of he-said-she-said ensues. The burden of proof in these cases is really on the prosecution and if they cannot find a way […]
Can Your PD Store and Manage Digital Evidence in These Eight Plus Ways?
If your PD is getting ready or thinking about making the move to recording interviews, one of the questions you need to prepare to think through is how you store, access, share and manage your digital evidence. Learn more! We are so certain that no other product is as effective as ours that we have […]