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[[File:mlpfim_perpsweat_3735mlpfim perpsweat 3735.jpg|link=My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|frame|"I want you to ''confess''!"]]

Two characters [['''Perp Sweating]]''' almost never works on include [[The Sociopath]] and people with [[Aspergers Syndrome]], totally different types of person, both on a different level of communication to you. [[The Sociopath]] will be two steps ahead of you and retaliate with a [[Hannibal Lecture]]. A person with Aspergers will be seven or eight steps behind, and get confused by subtle questions, annoyed by a [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]] routine, and clam up if you start lying to them. The savvy ones will [[Be as Unhelpful as Possible]] to get back at you. Either way you're going to have to rethink your techniques with them.

One major problem with [['''Perp Sweating]]''' is that it is often done in an effort to elicit a confession in the absence of evidence actually proving the person's guilt. In other words, the interrogator is assuming the questioned individual's guilt even without a concrete reason. At best, this can be called poor investigative technique and at worst, it can be called a violation of the principle that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

* ''[[L.A. Confidential]]'' had such a successful [[Perp Sweating]] that the men being held were not only in tears, but actually [[Bring My Brown Pants|crapping themselves]].

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