While the average person may not know the term “Reid technique,” they probably would recognize some of the tactics involved. It and other controversial methods have been used to extract confessions ...

Although in When They See, a similar technique is shown to lead to false confessions, Reid's firm has denied that the method creates false confessions, which are the result of abuses of the system.

Chicago firm John E. Reid & Associates is claiming that DuVernay’s miniseries When They See Us mischaracterized the interrogation technique developed by the firm’s late founder John E. Reid ...

The Chicago firm John E. Reid & Associates has filed a defamation suit against Netflix and DuVernay for the series’ depiction of the Reid Technique, a method of interviewing and interrogation ...