i saw an interesting article on how cops get false confessions. it was in the july issue of scientific american mind it was titled either "true crimes, false confessions" or "why do innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit?" it was by saul m kassin gisli h gudjonsson it said that in america when the cops use the techniques which the magazine named they can get about a 54% confession rate. thats is even from people who have not committed crimes. they said the rate varies from culture to culture and in japan where people are brainwashed from birth to conform the the technique gets a confession rate in the 90 percent rate. the magazines web site is: Original Article the two guys who wrote the article have a web site called the innocence project. it is at: http://www.innocenceproject.org