The Last Week Tonight host explores issues with police interrogations, which often place extracting a confession over determining truth
John Oliver investigated the unreliability and predatory nature of police interrogations, which are often aimed at extracting a confession rather than determining truth. Confessions are “viewed as the gold standard when it comes to an indicator of guilt, as they can apparently be more persuasive than even DNA evidence”, the Last Week Tonight host explained on Sunday evening.
An admission of guilt, however obtained, is “wildly persuasive”, he added, “because we think that they’re one of those things that only guilty people do, like posting a Notes app apology or refusing to answer any of Ronan Farrow’s questions”.
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