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When interviewing witnesses to a crime, police interviewers seek to maximize the amount of information that a cooperating eyewitness can give them so that they can generate leads to follow, confirm or disconfirm . ███████ ███ ██ ██████ ███

Intro to Topic · Police interviews of eyewitnesses

Goal is to maximize the amount of true information from eyewitnesses. How do police do this?

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Method 1 · Cognitive interview

Description · Development, adoption, and techniques

Success · Increases number of true recalls without increasing false recalls

Problem · Too hard to implement

Cognitive interview is complex. Too hard to learn. Too hard to implement. So it's great if it's executed properly but it's too hard to execute properly.

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Method 2 · Hypnosis

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Problem · May increase false reports; may increase false confidence; not all witnesses are susceptible to hypnosis

While hypnosis is easier to execute than cognitive interview, it has a lot of downsides.

Ideal Solution / Method · 3 criteria

1. requires no special training (better than cognitive interview); 2. can be applied to everyone (better than hypnosis); 3. has positive effect on true recall with no increase in false recall (better than hypnosis).

Method 3 / Ideal Solution · Close your eyes

Just tell witnesses to close their eyes as they are recalling.

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Evidence of Success · "Close your eyes" is the best method

Improve true recall to similar degree as cognitive interview. Everyone can use this technique, unlike hypnosis. Doesn't require any specialized training, unlike cognitive interview.

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Main point

After describing two police interview techniques that have various deficiencies, the author lands on eye-closure as the “ideal method” for getting more information from eyewitnesses. The main point should capture the author’s opinion that eye-closure is the ideal method for police interviews of eyewitnesses.

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This doesn’t capture the author’s opinion that eye-closure is the ideal method.

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This doesn’t capture the author’s opinion that eye-closure is the ideal method. The main point isn’t merely that asking people to close their eyes is a common technique.

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This doesn’t capture the author’s opinion that eye-closure is the ideal method.

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This is the main point, because it captures the author’s opinion that there’s evidence eye-closure is the ideal method for police interviews of eyewitnesses.

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