This essay will be summarizing most the main and important ideas used in Benedict Carey’s piece called, “Judging Honesty by Words, Not Fidgets”. The audience of this piece would be anyone interested in law enforcement and might just want a summary of Carey’s piece and don’t feel like reading the whole excerpt. For those in the audience who have not read this excerpt it is mainly for the purpose of law enforcers, officers, and even some people who just want to learn the trick of lying and getting away with it. Benedict Carey really wanted to go over the methods of interrogation that have been used throughout our history. Using some research he tried to find the methods that would most efficiently find the true criminals in an interrogation and help out our future law enforcers. When people think of an interrogation some of the first things that usually comes to mind is questioning, good-cop, bad-cop, lie detectors, and two way mirrors. Well these methods have been used for some time now and trying to get answers out of people is not always the easiest. Sometimes cops cannot even tell if someone is lying or not because some people just get good at telling lies. The audience would think that with today’s technology it would be a little easier than what it is. This is exactly what forensic scientists have been trying to do. They are finding new techniques they hope will give interrogators and other law enforcers a better chance to cypher out the criminals from the truth tellers. “With the new techniques being tested they have found that it doesn’t always matter about the body language of the person getting interrogated but more about the content of what the person says”(Carey 11) . Instead of going straight to a suspect and rumbling on about how you think they are the criminal, the officers now try to get the most evidence possible before interrogation. This means the officers go into the questioning knowing exactly what they are going to ask the suspect and they make it less of an interrogation and more of just an investigative interview. They just ask simple questions rather than shove random questions down your throat and expect you to answer them. By trying these new methods researchers are getting closer and closer to finding the most effective way of getting truthful answers. In the article Carey writes, “In analyses of what people say when they are lying and when they are telling the truth, researchers have found enticing differences”(Carey 10). People that are lying usually stick to one story and one story only meaning they have practiced and learned everything they are going to say before they even say it. Honest people don’t know exactly what they are going to say so they have chances of messing up a part in their story. In several studies, Dr. Colwell and Dr. Hiscock-Anisman also found that people telling the truth tend to add 20 to 30 percent more external detail than do those who are lying. This being said researchers are going deeper into these thoughts and coming up with types of interviews to discovery the liars from the honest people. With different forms of interrogation, liars going by scripts, and a new interview method. The researchers are getting closer and closer to finding the key to a successful interrogation. If these new interview methods work it could help out law enforcers around the world to pick who the criminals are out of many different suspects. This being said if everyone works together and the scientists can get answers this world might start clearing the streets of criminals more often and more proficiently. Let’s make this place a safer world to live in.

Works Cited
Carey, Benedict. "Judging Honesty by Words, Not Fidgets." The McGraw-Hill Ready. 11th ed. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 9-12. Print.