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by x128 1071 days ago
This is also how police get people to confess to crimes they never committed. Coercion is not a useful tool for seeking the truth.
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Who's implying these people are seeking truth? They are seeking a short cut to do what they want. Police just want a closed case, and if they think you did it, you did it. Coercion just makes the amount of time they have to spend on it much less.