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Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Our governor last year signed a law that required police to record homicie interrogations and confessions, despite stiff opposition from law enforcement. Now the New York Times and the Tribune report on a survey from Northwestern's Center on Wrongful Convictions that says police have come to embrace the practice: It saves time and money and heads off allegations of misconduct.

 
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