We see a lot of police interrogation on TV, but how closely do those high-adrenaline scenes resemble the real thing? According to Douglas Starr, not much.

Police interrogations and dramatic confessions are "a staple of countless TV shows, including ones you might not expect," John Oliver said on Sunday night's Last Week Tonight.

The award-winning documentary Scenes of a Crime covers the case of Adrian Thomas, who was convicted of killing his 4-month-old son. Thomas was interrogated for nearly 10 hours at a New York police ...

Codifying police policy into law, they argued, could jeopardize legitimate cases against rapists and killers, the types of cases for which the Nevada bill specifically required interrogations to ...

“The Confession Tapes” (2017) likewise takes contentious real-life confessions and inspects them with a rigour that (according to the show) the justice system has failed to.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with investigative journalist Robert Kolker, whose article in Wired explores the new police interrogation technique called rapport-building.

How close are TV interrogations to the real thing? Not very, says Douglas Starr. In a New Yorker article, he explores the "gold standard" of... We see a lot of police interrogation on TV, but how ...