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Originally posted by MNSIG:
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What percentage of those interviewed/interrogated/questioned by the FBI are actually “in custody”?

It is an excellent question...


Imagine...


Guy walks into bank. There are three customers in line and three bank employees. A Branch manager. A Head Teller. and a Teller. Guy passes a note to the teller that says he is robbing the bank. Teller give him some money and he runs out of the bank. Two witnesses see him outside the bank. He gets into his getaway car and drives away. The getaway car is stolen and bears a stolen license plate from a different, but similar car. LPRs track the getaway car to a mall parking lot. Security at the mall picks up the bank robber switching cars and driving away in his personal car. The license plate on his car comes back to his girlfriend at the apartment they share. The apartment manager informs you she works at the coffee shop, but he is not employed. He is at the apartment now. Apartment Manager identifies the robber from the bank pictures as the guy living in the apartment.


A warrant is obtained and the bank robber is arrested and taken "into custody." The stolen money is recovered in the apartment.


Which of the following people should have their interview recorded?


1. Customer A

2. Customer B

3. Customer C

4. Bank Branch manager

5. Head Teller

6. Teller

7. Outside witness #1

8. Outside witness #2

9. Owner of stolen car

10. Owner of stolen license plate

11. Mall Security guy

12. Apartment manager

13. Coffee shop Manager where GF works

14. Girlfriend who rents apartment

15. Bank robber

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Which of the following people should have their interview recorded?

Whichever one(s) may be charged with a criminal act.

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Originally posted by Sig M11:
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May 22, 2014 / 1:00 PM / 4 years ago

https://www.reuters.com/articl...dUSBREA4L0W320140522

Well, that article implies all federal agencies, or at least all USDOJ agencies, were "prohibited" from recording custodial interviews prior to the policy. However, that's not correct. Not all federal agencies, and not even all USDOJ agencies, were prohibited from record custodial interviews prior to the policy change. The only federal agencies I'm aware of that prohibited the recordings were the FBI, and AFOSI, which as I said earlier has a peculiar habit of mimicking FBI policies.

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Which of the following people should have their interview recorded?

Everyone That gives a statement.

Even if it's just sitting them in a police car and getting a verbal statement and then a hand written statement. This helps the investigators later when they have a question and can review the audio or video. Most written statements are lacking. Most statements are gathered by the officers on the scene.