Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Justice Department officials are combating wrongful convictions by demanding that law enforcement agencies to a better job scrutinizing eyewitness accounts and police interviews, Medill News Service reports.
It’s impossible to know for sure how many people are wrongfully convicted, but more than 1,100 have been exonerated from 1989 to 2012, according to the National Registry of Exoneration.
The report, issued Tuesday, also calls for investigative reforms to prevent wrongful arrests, the news service wrote.
“At minimum, law enforcement agencies should record audio of all interviews involving major crimes,” the report reads.
