The Confession Tapes

An eye opening series showing how in certain situations a person can be coerced into confession. Some of the footage is down right appalling, how the cops treated these people and broke them down. For each case the interviews were relevant, and the archival footage well used. Though it did sometimes feel like the whole story wasn't being shown.

Eye opening, I am already hooked. I hope Netflix will do another season. This director is awesome! I binged watched the whole season and was ready for more. This must be a small fraction of what is going on. I had no idea what went on during interrogation. It made me rethink what I would do in each situation. This is an intriguing show. Thanks for bringing this awesome series to us, Netflix.

This is a great documentary that shows major holes in our justice system. We all assume things would happen if we were ever accused of a crime. Such as, innocent until proved guilty, or that it would need to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that we were guilty. Those assumptions simply are not true. This series like several others Netflix has done show the adversarial relationship the police and prosecutors have toward accused citizens. To them it is about winning, not finding justice.

I find these real hard to watch because of some of these idiotic Sheriff's and DA's.... I'm all for putting people away that commit serious crimes but God almighty it's simple to see some of these men or women had absolutely nothing to do with these crimes... And man oh man how does some of these people get law enforcement jobs

This is so sad to watch. I myself wouldn't think it's even possible to admit to the crime one has not committed. However looking at the interrogation technique that cops are using in US is horrendous. Intimidation, fear and hours long pressure play tricks with your mind. Once they feel the weakness of the person they start exploiting it until one has given up. Fear overrides everything.

Why is it happening? Why the police does not invest more time investigating the case making sure they exhausted all the options? because it's hard work...maybe it's more convenient to press and use out the vulnerability of people who lost their dearest ones, those in grief.

The crazy thing about it is that the victims do not ask for a lawyer!!!

So many cases in US are wrongfully convicted it makes me cringe ...