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The Wedding Dance

The Wedding Dance is a choreographed piece to lock witnesses (usually police officers) into their reports to make it harder for them to weasel their way of out omissions, errors, and inconsistencies.If they try to go outside their report, they will have to choose whether to admit that they're hiding something or that they're incompetent.Did you prepare a report in relation to this case?Do you consider yourself a professional when it comes to preparing police reports?You have been trained to prepare accurate reports, correct?Is it your practice to prepare accurate reports?You have been trained to prepare complete reports, correct?Is it your practice to prepare complete reports?Would you agree that a complete and accurate report will contain all of the important facts?Your report in this case is complete and accurate, correct?Your report in relation to this matter contains all of the important facts, correct?Officer, please take a minute or two to review your complete and accurate report before answering this next question...continue to full post

Full post as published by Gideon’s Guardians on May 03, 2007 (boomark / email).