Third degree (interrogation)

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The third level is a euphemism for torture ("causing pain, physical or mental, to issue confession or statement"). In 1931, the Wickersham Commission found that the use of a third degree was widespread in the United States. No one knows the origin of the term, but there are several hypotheses. The use of a third degree is technically made illegal after Wickersham's report. However, the method of interrogation known as the Reid technique, now widely used by law enforcement in the US, is seen by many as a psychological version of the third level because it is equally capable of issuing false confessions through coercion when abused by the police.

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Possible origins

• Richard H. Sylvester.
• The third level of Freemasonry and strict procedures to advance to that level.
• The term may have been coined by the New York City Police Detective in the nineteenth century, Thomas F. Byrnes, perhaps as a pun on his behalf, as in third-degree burns.
• The Knights of Columbus has the third level ceremony required to advance to that level, looking tight.
• Progressive torture rate used to issue recognition during the Spanish Inquisition.
• A major difficulty solving a third-level polynomial equation by comparison with a second degree.

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