What future technologies, not currently in existence, do you foresee being used to further communication, particularly in interview and interrogation situations? I see Developments in surveillance systems, biometrics and DNA analysis that will help the Officer have all the information available to them during the interview and interrogations process. According to Janniro, M. (1991) “Studies show that people are likely to look at each other 50 to 60 percent of the time as they talk”.
This means that Police officers need to have training on the human body and eye movement so when they are speaking to a person they are aware of the signs of guilt or innocence and they can move the conversation forward based off of that infornmation. During an Interview, an officer is simply gaining information, perhaps from a witnesses or friend so the officer is friendly and courteous to the needs of the person. I think that officers should audio tape these interviews, so they do not miss anything on their note taking and have to ask the person to be interviewed again. In the past decades we have come so far in DNA analysis, we have become so backlog that it takes weeks to process someone’s DNA. It takes more government money to improve future technologies, these issues need to be priority to make the most of DNA analysis.
Biometrics future technology can improve just like how we improve computer software every year. To have a computer system that is built to identify people by facial recognition, or even iris recognition to determine a individuals eyes. Biometrics is a huge field that has so much potential to help identify a suspect to make the interrogation more factual then theory. If a suspect believes that an officer has his DNA, witnesses and facial or eye recognition along with what the victim tells us, alive or dead they are more likely to want to confess to get a better deal. A suspect’s whole reason why they plead not guilty is because a lot of times the integrating officer tells a story of how they think it went down, unless they have evidence linking them to the crime. I think that prior to the interrogation, a officer should have as much evidence as possible linking the suspect to the crime, if that means interviewing, surveillance systems, biometrics and DNA analysis prior to the interrogation then they should take the time. This way the officer gets more confessions or evidence for the DA to make sure the suspect serves time.
References
Janniro, M. (1991) Interview and Interrogation.