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Science-based approaches are ‘more effective’ than coercive methods at gathering accurate intelligence

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In an interview with Scott Savage of Savage Training Group for ScienceBasedInterviewing.org, CERL Advisory Council member Mark Fallon discusses his nearly 30-year career as an NCIS Special Agent, the importance of rapport-based techniques over coercive approaches to interviewing, and the ways in which science can be harnessed to improve law enforcement training.

Mark Fallon is the co-founder of Project Aletheia at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, director of ClubFed, LLC, and a member of the CERL Advisory Council. He is the author of Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture. Read his bio here.

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