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Dan Slepian

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
101 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

Fewer actually shoot somebody.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

Yet, they are required to go four times a year for training, for gun training.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

There is no mandatory training for interrogations, and they do it every single day.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

I was shocked by that, to be honest with you.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

So the idea that there's these guidelines...

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

and best practices that can reduce wrong it doesn't mean lying doesn't sometimes elicit the truth but the reason that these guidelines are there and these best practices are there to reduce the possibility over the years innocence projects have sprung up around the country uh and in many cases to deal with false confessions because they do happen uh quite a lot um

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

And one of the reasons that I thought it was important, you know, there's a lot of experts out there that you can use to talk about this.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

I specifically thought it was important for Steve Kleinman to be the guy because I didn't want to have an academic talking about this because a lot of detectives and police around the country will look at that and say, well, yeah, that guy goes to school.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

He's never done an interrogation.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

Steve Kleinman has done interrogations around the world, including in Guantanamo Bay, you know, and he, he, he trains other detectives about how to do this.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

So he's a peer.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

He wasn't, you know, an academic or someone.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

So that's, he came with great credibility.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

Lester, didn't that happen with us last night?

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

I forgot, maybe.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

You just articulated exactly the reason that we thought it was worth doing.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

It was Rudolph.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

You know, we're not obviously live TV.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

We're not like the Today Show.