What do you see as the most important aspect(s) of the Cognitive Interview in terms of maximizing the reliability of information obtained from crime eyewitnesses and victims?

Consider the chapter on interviewing witnesses and victims (Chapter 6 in the Brewer & Douglass book) and the video you watched on the Cognitive Interview, and share your thoughts on one or both of the following questions:
What do you see as the most important aspect(s) of the Cognitive Interview in terms of maximizing the reliability of information obtained from crime eyewitnesses and victims? What do you see as the primary challenge(s) to implementing the Cognitive Interview in real criminal investigations?
What could be done by stakeholders (e.g., researchers, policymakers, police supervisors) to promote the use of scientific best practices for interviewing crime eyewitnesses and victims? Hope and Gabbert (Chapter 6 in Brewer & Douglass, 2019) suggest that the use of structured protocols, memory aids, and integrating practice and feedback in training sessions may help promote improvements in investigative interviewing practices. Share your thoughts about the promise and prospects of these ideas, along with any other ideas you have.
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Eyewitness Memory (Chapter 5) of the Brewer and Douglass (2019) book
Interviewing Witnesses and Victims (Chapter 6) of the Brewer and Douglass (2019) book
Wells, G. L., Kovera, M. B., Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., Meissner, C. A., & Wixted, J. T. (2020). Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 44(1), 3-36.
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Smalarz, L. (2021). Suspect bias: A neglected threat to the reliability of eyewitness identification evidence. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
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