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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Reveals the Biggest Witness Interview Mistake.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Bill Cannon Reveals the Biggest Witness Interview Mistake Good evening, everyone! This episode focuses on effective **police techniques** for witness interviews, emphasizing the critical need for separate discussions to prevent influence. We discuss how such strategies are essential in **law enforcement** to gather accurate information for **criminal justice**. Retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon provides expert **interview tips** for handling large-scale investigations, drawing from his experience in **true crime stories**.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Witnesses need to be interviewed separately.

0:03.6

You can never interview witnesses together because they will influence each other and they will

0:09.7

try to wind up saying the same exact thing.

0:13.3

So if there were 400 people in that lecture hall, interview all 400 of them.

0:18.4

And if you need to get 50 or 100 detectives to do that, then do it.

0:23.0

Get the state police, get the FBI, wake up everyone from Providence that's at home and get them in to interview these people.

0:30.4

That's how important that is. And apparently they didn't do that.

0:34.5

And you only get one chance to do things correctly.

0:38.0

And once you lose that opportunity, guess where all those kids went the next day?

0:42.4

They went home.

0:44.0

They went home.

0:45.2

You just lost the opportunity because now once they go home, they're going to be influenced

0:50.1

by talking to people and what they saw.

0:52.8

And what's really, really baffling.

0:54.9

I said this at the outset of this was why was there and why is there no sketch?

1:00.6

That blows me away.

1:02.7

And as I said, sketch artists don't have to see the face.

1:09.3

They can have this face described to them by eyeball witnesses.

1:14.1

I don't know if the shooter, in fact, ever took down the mask.

1:18.7

I don't know.

1:19.6

But even what they saw, even what we see on the new video put out of the rotund individual who they're saying is possibly the shooter,

1:30.4

there's enough there for a good sketch artist to draw a sketch of his face.

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