{"id":7691,"date":"2014-05-23T21:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2014-05-23T21:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:53:15","slug":"federal-agents-to-begin-recording-suspect-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=7691","title":{"rendered":"Federal Agents to Begin Recording Suspect Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBI-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7215\" src=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBI-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FBI seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Justice Department has issued a policy change that will direct federal agents from the FBI, DEA, BATFE, and the U.S. Marshals Service to begin electronically recording suspect interviews. Welcome to the 1980&#8217;s, G-Men! \u00a0Seriously, this will be an important credibility boost for the Feds.<\/p>\n<p>One of my cyber-crimes detectives was recently on the stand in a federal trial. \u00a0As a task force agent, he was questioned on cross-examination about his lack of a recorded suspect interview. \u00a0In the gallery, I squirmed when the savvy defense lawyer pointedly asked him, &#8220;In your capacity as a <em>local<\/em> law enforcement officer, isn&#8217;t it true that you would have taped your interrogation of my client?&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Yes.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;So we can&#8217;t really hear exactly what my client said because federal rules prevented it.&#8221; \u00a0Ruh-roh.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department policy change will take effect in July. \u00a0Although I wholeheartedly applaud the new directive, I am still scratching my head was to why this was not done&#8230;I don&#8217;t know&#8230;several decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department has issued a policy change that will direct federal agents from the FBI, DEA, BATFE, and the U.S. Marshals Service to begin electronically recording suspect interviews. Welcome to the 1980&#8217;s, G-Men! \u00a0Seriously, this will be an important credibility boost for the Feds. One of my cyber-crimes detectives was recently on the stand in a federal trial. \u00a0As a task force agent, he was questioned on cross-examination about his lack of a recorded suspect interview. \u00a0In the gallery, I squirmed when the savvy defense lawyer pointedly asked him, &#8220;In your capacity as a local law enforcement officer, isn&#8217;t it true that you would have taped your interrogation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=7691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-203","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}