Implications Of Persuasion
With the assistance of the Homeland Security team, they played tag team with the interrogation process to see if they could break down the suspect. Both sides of the interrogator teams relied heavily on persuasion tactics. They played the good cop bad cop scenario, where one Narcotics officer appeared nice, while the Homeland Security employee appeared angry and threatening. They altered the suspect’s perceptions of the situation and its consequences by alternating tatics. The persuasion is difficult, for most of the suspects have a strong belief in maintaining their innocence or protecting their drug source.