WJI's daily reads for Aug. 17, 2021

The Washington Post: "Warrior police" mindset coming under increasing scrutiny.

Marijuana Moment: New Yorkers can smoke marijuana at this year's State Fair.

“State law allows marijuana use anywhere tobacco use is permitted,” Dave Bullard, a spokesperson for the Fair, told Marijuana Moment. “Smoking is not permitted in Fairgrounds buildings or in the open concert venues at Chevy Court and Chevy Park but is allowed elsewhere outdoors.”

“We encourage those who smoke to be considerate of others around them,” he added.

Seeking Alpha: Federal appeals court revives nearly 6,000 lawsuits over 3M surgical warming device.

Reason: States are beginning to reign in deceptive police interrogation techniques.

Threats, bluffs, and other ploys are all part of the police toolbox now in what's known as the Reid technique, the dominant method for conducting police interrogations for more than half a century. The Reid technique is guilt-presumptive, meaning the primary purpose is to get suspects to implicate themselves or confess.

Illinois and Oregon's new laws are part of a major shift in our understanding of how psychological manipulation can create false confessions. Brown says about 30 states now require interrogations to be recorded, and Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, an interrogation consulting firm that also trains police, announced it would stop using the Reid technique in 2017. Washington passed a law earlier this year requiring attorney consultations for minors before police can interrogate them.

"I hope the Illinois law will serve as a model for other states," Lawrence T. White, professor emeritus of psychology at Beloit College, wrote in an email to Reason. "In the United Kingdom, police cannot lie to suspects under any circumstances. It's been that way since the PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence) Act was passed in 1984, 37 years ago."

CNN: U.S. Justice Department's civil rights chief calls on Congress to pass voting rights bill.