What do I do about my investigative notes? I have a method that I use. I record the date at the top, the start and stop time of the call. I denote if the interview is over a platform like Zoom, otherwise, I might leave a spot blank if the
How do you make somebody comfortable so they’ll open up to you in your investigative interviews? I think that that’s really an individual thing, but what I’ll say is that setting expectations about the interview helps make things comfortable. I know from my own personal style, I usually make a
What do you do if you make somebody uncomfortable? First of all, try super hard not to do that because you are affecting the quality of your investigation. But sometimes weird things come out of your mouth or unintentional comments come out. Things come out in ways you didn’t mean,
What do we do if we think somebody is lying to us during an investigative interview? This probably comes up more than it should with adults, but it happens, and there’s a handful of ways that you can handle it. One of them is just to say, “I’m having a
What do you do if an interview takes forever? You need to be scheduling out your breaks. It is unreasonable to go past about two hours of interview time. It is probably unreasonable to go past an hour and a half. Most people can live without a break for an
How do you investigate complaints about somebody’s lifestyle choices? As example, things like breastfeeding in the office, or choosing not to wear deodorant, or eating a lot of fish for lunch, or using a lot of slang. Things like that get complained about a lot. A lot of those complaints
What do you do if you learn an important fact after you’ve already interviewed someone? This happens, it just does. I can foresee things like this better than I could when I first started as an investigator but it is inevitable that post-interview revelations happen. And it kind of depends
What do you do if your interviewee doesn’t understand what you’re asking because they lack capacity or because you expect that they lack capacity? It is very unlikely that you, as an investigator, can make a determination about someone’s capacity. There are certainly tests the layperson can utilize to determine
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What do I do about the kinds of conclusions that I can make? First, investigators do not make legal conclusions. Judges make conclusions of law. Since we are not judges and we are not juries, we do not make conclusions of law. We can talk about what is ‘more likely
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