His show does proper research and points to numerous actual cases of harm before making a claim. Detaining suspects for long periods of time and forcing confessions is a topic that comes up repeatedly, each time with different examples. I don't know how anyone can say with a straight face that this isn't anything of substance. [this video]
Well-researched coverage of long detentions and forced confessions.
Forced confessions are unfortunately not unique to Japan [1]. Police will behave like that when you reward them based on the number of convictions and don't hold them accountable for screwing over innocent people. Still sucks, though. [1]: [this video]
False confessions from police interrogations in the US.
Is this news at this point? Last year there was a whole episode of Last Week Tonight with main subject "Police interrogations and false confession" [1] documenting exactly how innocent people are coerced into guilty pleas. [1] [this video]
Episode on how innocent people are coerced into confessing.
Or you know, it being the standard work process for police these days apparently, so they can pat themselves on the back and go home early: [this video]
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