Posts Tagged ‘interrogation’

Reading Body Language in Reverse: Fixing Deception Myth #9, Torture Works…

Monday, May 4th, 2009

 

interrogation-film-noir1There’s power in knowing how to read body language signals. 

 

There’s power in knowing how to transmit signals with your own body language. 

 

So why wouldn’t there be power in transmitting messages physically into a person’s body? 

 

Translation:  There’s power in torture. 

 

Now, I never tortured anybody for information when I was a cop.  And you know what?  I missed out on a lot of confessions because of this. 

 

That’s right, a lot of thugs walked because I was too nice—only because I had to be, of course. 

 

Still, I did get confessions.  And since I couldn’t put bamboo shoots under their fingernails, or whip ‘em with a rubber hose like they did in the old days, I had to rely on psychological means (more…)