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Why People Confess to Crimes They Didn’t Commit

  It sounds impossible, right? Why would anyone ever confess to a crime they didn’t commit? Why sit in an interrogation room, look a detective in the eye, and say “Yeah, I did it”  - when you didn’t? But it happens. A lot. According to The Innocence Project , roughly one in four wrongful convictions in the U.S. involves a false confession . That means hundreds of people have gone to prison - or even death row - for something they didn’t do, just because they said they did The Pressure Cooker Imagine this: you’ve been sitting in a small gray room for 12 hours. No phone. No lawyer. No sleep. The detective keeps saying he already knows you did it - he just wants your “side of the story.” You start to believe that maybe confessing will make it stop. You tell yourself, “I’ll explain later, they’ll figure it out.” Except they don’t. Because once those words -  “I did it”  - leave your mouth, the system doesn’t care why . The Psychology Behind It False confession...

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Police killed 1,147 people in 2017.


State Population African-American Alone % African-American % Victims Black Disparity # Black people killed # People Killed Rate (Black People) Rate (All People)
Alabama 4 779 736 1 251 311 26,18% 41% 15% 30 73 23,97 15,27
Alaska 710 231 23 263 3,28% 14% 11% 2 14 85,97 19,71
Arizona 6 392 017 259 008 4,05% 8% 4% 12 149 46,33 23,31
Arkansas 2 915 918 449 895 15,43% 27% 11% 8 30 17,78 10,29
California 37 253 956 2 299 072 6,17% 16% 9% 100 640 43,50 17,18
Colorado 5 029 196 201 737 4,01% 11% 7% 9 80 44,61 15,91
Connecticut 3 574 097 362 296 10,14% 15% 5% 3 20 8,28 5,60
Delaware 897 934 191 814 21,36% 40% 19% 4 10 20,85 11,14
District of Columbia 601 723 300 000 49,86% 94% 44% 16 17 53,33 28,25
Florida 18 801 310 2 999 862 15,96% 36% 20% 111 307 37,00 16,33
Georgia 9 687 653 3 150 435 32,52% 40% 8% 44 109 13,97 11,25
Hawaii 1 360 301 21 424 1,57% 7% 5% 1 15 46,68 11,03
Idaho 1 567 582 9 810 0,63% 0% -1% 0 16 0,00 10,21
Illinois 12 830 632 1 866 414 14,55% 49% 34% 47 96 25,18 7,48
Indiana 6 483 802 591 397 9,12% 33% 24% 20 60 33,82 9,25
Iowa 3 046 355 89 148 2,93% 5% 2% 1 22 11,22 7,22
Kansas 2 853 118 167 864 5,88% 21% 15% 8 39 47,66 13,67
Kentucky 4 339 367 337 520 7,78% 18% 10% 9 50 26,67 11,52
Louisiana 4 533 372 1 452 396 32,04% 51% 19% 39 77 26,85 16,99
Maine 1 328 361 15 707 1,18% 0% -1% 0 14 0,00 10,54
Maryland 5 773 552 1 700 298 29,45% 65% 36% 52 80 30,58 13,86
Massachusetts 6 547 629 434 398 6,63% 29% 22% 11 38 25,32 5,80
Michigan 9 883 640 1 400 362 14,17% 36% 22% 23 64 16,42 6,48
Minnesota 5 303 925 274 412 5,17% 17% 12% 7 41 25,51 7,73
Mississippi 2 967 297 1 074 200 36,20% 39% 3% 16 41 14,89 13,82
Missouri 5 988 927 704 043 11,76% 43% 31% 38 89 53,97 14,86
Montana 989 415 4 027 0,41% 0% 0% 0 21 0,00 21,22
Nebraska 1 826 341 82 885 4,54% 18% 14% 4 22 48,26 12,05
Nevada 2 700 551 218 626 8,10% 16% 7% 9 58 41,17 21,48
New Hampshire 1 316 470 15 035 1,14% 0% -1% 0 8 0,00 6,08
New Jersey 8 791 894 1 204 826 13,70% 40% 26% 23 58 19,09 6,60
New Mexico 2 059 179 42 550 2,07% 5% 3% 3 63 70,51 30,59
New York 19 378 102 3 073 800 15,86% 46% 31% 46 99 14,97 5,11
North Carolina 9 535 483 2 048 628 21,48% 42% 20% 47 113 22,94 11,85
North Dakota 672 591 7 960 1,18% 0% -1% 0 6 0,00 8,92
Ohio 11 536 504 1 407 681 12,20% 43% 31% 45 105 31,97 9,10
Oklahoma 3 751 351 277 644 7,40% 32% 25% 29 90 104,45 23,99
Oregon 3 831 074 69 206 1,81% 5% 3% 3 57 43,35 14,88
Pennsylvania 12 702 379 1 377 689 10,85% 28% 18% 27 95 19,60 7,48
Rhode Island 1 052 567 60 189 5,72% 50% 44% 2 4 33,23 3,80
South Carolina 4 625 364 1 290 684 27,90% 35% 8% 22 62 17,05 13,40
South Dakota 814 180 10 207 1,25% 0% -1% 0 12 0,00 14,74
Tennessee 6 346 105 1 055 689 16,64% 26% 9% 20 78 18,94 12,29
Texas 25 145 561 2 979 598 11,85% 24% 12% 84 356 28,19 14,16
Utah 2 763 885 29 287 1,06% 8% 7% 3 39 102,43 14,11
Vermont 625 741 6 277 1,00% 0% -1% 0 4 0,00 6,39
Virginia 8 001 024 1 551 399 19,39% 45% 26% 27 60 17,40 7,50
Washington 6 724 540 240 042 3,57% 10% 7% 10 96 41,66 14,28
West Virginia 1 852 994 63 124 3,41% 13% 9% 4 32 63,37 17,27
Wisconsin 5 686 986 359 148 6,32% 26% 20% 10 38 27,84 6,68
Wyoming 563 626 4 748 0,84% 0% -1% 0 12 0,00 21,29

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