The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), in cooperation with the Department of Justice and the Innocence Project, will make 30 recommendations for changes in the way law enforcement officials conduct investigations, in an effort to prevent cases of wrongful convictions. The National Summit on Wrongful Convictions: Building a Systemic Approach to Prevent Wrongful Convictions Report examines both the causes of wrongful convictions and solutions for addressing them, and suggests new guidelines for conducting photo lineups, videotaping witness interviews and re-examining closed cases, among other policy recommendations.
The summit, the first held on a national-level and led by law enforcement, marks what IACP called a shift towards a “culture of openness” when analyzing evidence and investigating past errors. The report stresses the prevalence of eyewitness misidentification and calls on police agencies to use blind or sequential lineups when identifying suspects in order to reduce potential misidentification.
Read more here:
http://www.theiacp.org/About/WhatsNew/tabid/459/Default.aspx?id=2025&v=1
Get the report:
http://www.theiacp.org/portals/0/pdfs/Wrongful_Convictions_Summit_Report_WEB.pdf
Read about NCIP’s work in improving eyewitness identifications in California:
http://law.scu.edu/northern-california-innocence-project/improving-accuracy-of-eyewitness-identifications/
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