REID'S RESPONSE TO W-Z's

MARCH 6, 2017 PRESS RELEASE

We are responding to Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates' (W-Z) recent public announcement that it will no longer be offering the Reid Method in its law enforcement training program. After teaching the Reid Method for the past 33 years under a license agreement with John E. Reid & Associates, W-Z is now attempting to discredit the Reid Method as having �fallen under scrutiny due to its potential risk for eliciting false confessions,� a false narrative often advanced by defense attorneys.

Over the past 50 years, several hundred thousand law enforcement officers have taken our course. It is regarded by the law enforcement community as the gold standard in interviewing and interrogating suspects in criminal investigations. Using the Reid technique does not result in false confessions. Just the opposite is true. False confessions result when suspects in criminal investigations are interrogated using methods which we specifically advise NOT TO USE.

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UPDATE: 21 MARCH 2017

Calibre Press article by Owner Jim Glennon re the WZ Press Release

Does Reid & Associates teach officers a confrontational method of interviewing and interrogating that results in false confessions? I ask that question because recently they were basically accused of that. Or rather-the method they teach was accused of that.

So does their method result in false confessions? Not at all.

First it's important to address this at the outset: I have absolutely no relationship whatsoever with Reid & Associates, who I believe to have the premier interview and interrogation training program in the country. I have, however, been to more than a half a dozen classes, seminars and lectures conducted by them over my 30-year career.

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