Cognitive Interview and Technique

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I read the assigned article, the best way I can explain cognitive interviewing would be to say questions are asked, to retrieve information from witnesses and victims, from memory.

The information is too include, sights, sounds, feelings and emotions, weather and other etc...

We sometimes want specifics, but in the cognitive interview, you are to repeat all things that come to memory, even if you believe it to be irrelevant.

The questions should be open for  the person to  use their own words, stay on point, the questions should be focused, and be detailed.

Finally the most important part of any interview and or interrogation is to build a rapport with any one giving out the information.

Miranda Rights

Yes, the Miranda Rights have to be told to an individual, they have a right to know they are under arrest and they are going to be held, even if the individual, knows their rights, heard them, and can quote them, Miranda Rights are to protect the officer, and  individual.

We have The Bill of Rights, which has a Fifth Amendment which lets you know that you may not testify if it can incriminate you in the case.

When someone talks to an officer and they are not threatened and or intimidated in giving the information, this is voluntary, the court will look at the circumstances, and they will determine if the person understood their rights, and will proceed from that point on. Yes, your words may come back to incriminate you.

The Officer will read you your rights prior to interrogation while in custody, they can wait, the suspect may volunteer information.

You will find and officer exempt for immediately reading the rights to a suspect when the public is in immediate danger.

The police have every right to ask you questions, and that is why you have the right to say "I am not obligated to answer, "  Do not be rude, and you can politely ask why they want to question you. They are just doing their job.

Yes, they can approach you again, to get basic information, name, address, things along that line, for their report.

Writing an Incident Report

I  officer, Copeland of CPD, was dispatched to 8763 Wonderland Drive on July 1, 1981 at 21/23 hours. 

The unit is a 3 family ,  attached also to the left  is a garage which  a parked  Mercedes Benz license plate NQV California was inside, along side a full garbage can, and a washer machine.

I let my self into the apartment to find it ransacked, one lone white female body lye on the living room floor.

The females head was south of the table, and her body was covered from her buttocks to her feet with a pink and white spread.

One plant was south too the victims head, which was on the floor, the plant  had once hung from  the ceiling.

there was a pattern of blood across the victims nose which led to her left ear, under the chin to the neck area.

The blood was in pattern formation on her night shirt, near the buttocks and on the left side flowing to the coffee table, the blood on the table was also on a book which formed straight down, onto the couch, and flowed upward toward wall, on which  hung a picture  just above the back of the couch.

The table had an ashtray with 3 Winston cigarettes and 2 Salem cigarettes, a mug which had blood at a 365 degree angel, the blood was also in side the mug. Drug paraphernalia was also seen on coffee table.

End of report.

Wonderland Murders

Recorded Field Notes

21/23 hours
July 1, 1981
8763 Wonderland Drive
3 level family unit
under the unit a
Mercedes Benz is parked in the garage
Plate: 741 NQV California along side a washer machine, and a full garbage can
apt has been ransacked
first victim
first floor of the unit,
is a Caucasian female on living room floor
north east of the victim on the coffee table, a ash tray with 3 Winston's cigarettes, and 2 Salem cigarettes, drug paraphernalia is also on the coffee table
mug on the table has blood on it 360 degrees around and inside
females  head is south ,
a pink and white spread is covering her buttocks and feet
plant south to her head, is on floor, which once hung on the ceiling
pattern of  blood across the nose to left ear, under chin to under neck
pattern of blood on night shirt, near her buttocks on left coming up to the coffee table
blood on coffee table and book on table is going straight down, blood up over the couch is reaching up to picture on wall
to the south of the wall blood is on albums that are on floor and flow towards a speaker
covering the whole south wall