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[kingeryck]

Do they intentionally keep police interrogation rooms cold? Whenever I watch The First 48, people pulls their arms inside their shirts like they are freezing.

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[snuck]

Far more likely that it's a physiological response to stress or a stress derived comfort gesture.

That and the design of some interrogation rooms - given they are closed little boxes within the centre of buildings and/or with/without wide area ventilation they are probably less able to be temperature managed.

Not really

[darkshadow316]

Often times the building where the interrogation is being held has an outside controlled a/c unit. For whatever reason it always blows cold air. Winter and Summer.

[billymack]

I don't know if that much thought goes into it. I had to use a an old interrogation room as an office for a little over a year. I seem to recall having to complain to get any A/C working.

[snuck]

I think it depends entirely on where you are and what your building is like at that moment.

Here in Oz it's far more likely there's a fair sweat being raised and people complain about the heat.

[jakflak]

It's not intentional. Sometimes it's just that they are nervous, sometimes the building is just crap. The offices are just as poorly heated.

[ext_6224630]

Rooms are kept cold during interrogations to increase the anxiety of the person being interrogated. It is a common interrogation strategy to make the person feel uncomfortable and powerless, so placing him in a stiff chair, keeping the lights low, decreasing the room's temperature and using a one-way mirror are all strategies to do this.