Interviews that hold up. Warrants that survive.Taught by a retired NYSP Senior Investigator.
Investigative interviewing and search-warrant courses for law enforcement, HR, Title IX, legal, and sports organizations. Rapport-based, research-informed, and built from 24 years inside real investigations, not a training company's classroom.
For law enforcement·HR and workplace·Schools and Title IX·Attorneys·Sports
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Just some of the agencies that have trained with ASC
- New York State Police BCI
- Pennsylvania State Police
- Delaware State Police
- Ulster County District Attorney’s Office
- Boise Police Department
- Colonie Police Department
- NYS Department of Motor Vehicles
- New York State Justice Center
Today marked my first day back on the job following your training… when we located the suspect at his workplace, he was visibly agitated and confrontational. I found your approach completely disarmed him - his demeanor shifted, and he became surprisingly cooperative, ultimately making admissions to the key components of the arrest.
Detective Jeffrey PaytonVillage of Monroe Police Department
One of our Investigators did such a good job on a recent interview that I gathered the whole office, and we watched it as a group! Overall, I am extremely happy we went through the training as a group… I think you were the right person to deliver the right message.
Lieutenant Daniel J. BellesColonie Police Department
What are you trying to prevent?
The suppressed statement
The confession held up right until the suppression hearing. The patterns that sink statements are documented, and they can be trained out.
The warrant that gets challenged
Challenges target what the affidavit says and what it leaves out: a stale fact, a thin nexus, a material omission.
The finding reversed on appeal
Many Title IX findings are lost in the interview, weeks before anyone files an appeal.
The investigation that triggers the lawsuit
A single reversed termination, EEOC finding, or defamation claim can cost seven figures. Many trace back to the interview.
Investigative training for every profession
The mechanics of asking the right question, listening for what matters, and turning conversation into reliable information are the same whether you are investigating a homicide, conducting an HR matter, deposing a witness, interviewing a student, or evaluating a recruit. ASC has courses for all five.
Old methods cost you. New methods deliver.
Five things ASC brings together
One investigator’s career, one method, and the tools built from both. Here is what you get when you train with ASC.
Polygraph-examiner interview training
Interview training built for polygraph examiners, by one of the two regional coordinators who ran the New York State Police Polygraph Unit and its 39 examiners. See the course.
The free Suppression Database
A searchable national database of suppression outcomes, free and public. Browse it.
One practitioner, three disciplines
Interviewing, search-warrant drafting, and suppression consulting from the same investigator: a 24-year NYSP veteran and retired Senior Investigator. About Joe.
State-specific warrant manuals
The Affiant’s Standard: warrant-writing manuals written to your state’s law, by an investigator who authored more than 1,500 search warrants. New York and Delaware editions available now. See the series.
Beyond law enforcement
Courses for Title IX teams, HR, threat assessment teams, insurance SIU, attorneys, and sports organizations, taught by a 24-year state police investigator and built on one research-informed method. For attorneys: Strategic Legal Interviews. For everyone else: who we serve.
One interviewing method. One way to navigate it.
The Interviewing Method
Teach To Talk
Teach first. Then ask.
Teach To Talk is a complete investigative interviewing method built on one idea: before you ask a person for an important account, teach them how the conversation works, and teach the interviewer how to protect what they say. One standard for victims, witnesses, and suspects.
Ask someone to describe a pen from across the table. “Almost everyone adds something they cannot actually see,” Joe writes. “None of it is dishonest.” Teach To Talk practices that difference on a pen, where nothing is at stake, before the account that matters. See the pen demonstration
Explore Teach To Talk →The Navigation Framework
Adaptive Strategies Compass
When the interview struggles, know which way to turn.
The Adaptive Strategies Compass is the navigation tool inside Teach To Talk. When an interview starts to struggle, it tells you which way to turn.
Eight directions, no fixed order. Move to whichever one the conversation needs, as often as it needs it.
Run the “Which way?” check →Four pillars of exceptional interviewing
Rapport First
Every reliable interview starts with genuine human connection. Research funded by the FBI’s High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) has found that rapport-based methods tend to yield more useful information than accusatorial ones. ASC teaches rapport as a working skill: predictability, fairness, and attention to the person.
Strategic Intent
Every question has a purpose. Our training replaces reactive questioning with purposeful, research-informed strategy at every stage of the conversation.
Adaptive Execution
No two interviews are the same. The Adaptive Strategies Compass tells professionals which way to turn when an interview starts to struggle, so they can adjust in real time without losing direction or purpose.
Defensible Results
Every technique we teach is designed to produce information that is accurate, credible, and built to withstand legal review and ethical scrutiny.
Joseph R. Auriemma, Jr.
INCI · CFI · Former Regional Coordinator, New York State Police Polygraph Unit
Joe Auriemma spent 24 years with the New York State Police and conducted or supervised more than 12,000 interviews. He served 17 years in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, retired as a Senior Investigator, and was a lead instructor at the NYSP Academy, where he developed and delivered curriculum on investigative interviewing, crisis negotiation, and search warrant practice for incoming and in-service Troopers.
At ASC, Joe teaches Teach To Talk, the method he developed in 2016, and the Adaptive Strategies Compass, its navigation framework. Both shift the focus from compliance training toward competency and better decisions in the interview.
He is the author of The Affiant’s Standard, a state-by-state search warrant manual series, with the New York and Delaware editions available now, and his articles appear in Police1, the IADLEST magazine, the ILEETA Journal, and Law Enforcement Today.
Six hours across a table. A jury that never saw the full interview. A method built so the next interview can withstand legal review.
In 2012, a homicide investigation in upstate New York hinged on a six-hour interview with the prime suspect. The court suppressed a substantial portion of it. The jury acquitted. Joe was one of the two investigators in that room, using the accusatorial approach he had been trained in, and the case changed how he interviews and how he teaches.
Teach To Talk and the Adaptive Strategies Compass are what he built in response. Not a refined version of accusatorial work. The alternative to it.
Start with the core courses
From Information to Evidence
The cornerstone of the law enforcement curriculum. Non-confrontational interview techniques that turn conversations into credible evidence, built to withstand legal review.
Learn MorePrecision Search Warrants
Write search warrants built to withstand Franks and suppression challenges. Taught by an investigator who authored over 1,500, and the author of The Affiant’s Standard, with the New York and Delaware editions available now.
Learn More“Joe, you were a great instructor. We learned a lot from you and will take on some of what we learned. Would highly recommend you to anyone interested.”
Deputy Chief of Investigations Salvatore Salerno, NY State Justice CenterHost a course at your agency.
Bring ASC training directly to your team. Host agencies receive preferred scheduling, comp seats for their own personnel under the host-agency ladder, and curriculum tailored to the operational realities of their unit. Suitable for police departments, sheriff's offices, state agencies, corporate compliance teams, school districts, law firms, and athletic organizations.
Write warrants the way a court reads them. Precision Search Warrants.
Suppression motions are won and lost in the affidavit. Most are lost because of patterns the affiant did not see coming.
Precision Search Warrants is built from more than 1,500 search warrants authored across a 24-year investigative career, and from the case law that governs every paragraph. It is taught by the author of The Affiant's Standard, a state-by-state search warrant manual series, with the New York and Delaware editions available now, and it is designed for the people who have to defend their work at a suppression hearing, a Franks hearing, or on appeal.
The course also draws from Joe's investigative work on the Brandyn Foster homicide. That case contributed to Google's introduction of the Tombstone Report, and the Google search warrant and preservation-letter language Joe wrote for that case was adopted by the FBI’s CAST unit and shared with FBI and local law enforcement across the United States.
- Affidavit structure built to withstand challenge
- Probable cause, particularity, staleness, nexus, informant reliability
- Digital evidence after Carpenter, geofence alternatives, GPS under Weaver
- The patterns that produce suppression, and how to write around them
10 Search Warrant Mistakes That Get Suppressed
A practical PDF drawn from the patterns that produce suppression. Free.
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Read the doctrine in long form.
Long-form analysis published on the ASC site covers Title IX practice, trauma-informed methodology, workplace investigations, and search warrant doctrine. Each piece is written as a working reference.
Search Warrants That Survive Challenge
Drawn from 1,500-plus search warrants. Affidavit structure, common suppression vulnerabilities, and digital-evidence considerations.
Read → Trauma-InformedHow to Interview a Trauma-Exposed Victim Without Re-Traumatizing Them
How stress can affect attention and memory, environmental setup, language choices, and documentation built to withstand review at trial.
Read → Workplace InvestigationsWhy Workplace Investigations Get the Interview Wrong
Why workplace investigations fail at the interview. Leading questions, contamination, confirmation bias, and EEOC-defensible documentation.
Read → Title IXTitle IX Investigative Interviewing in 2026
Practical guide under the current regulatory landscape: interview-relevant requirements, common errors, and documentation standards that separate defensible findings from reversal on appeal.
Read →Joe writes for the publications law-enforcement professionals read.
Editorial features in Police1, the IADLEST Standards & Training Director Magazine, the ILEETA Journal, and Law Enforcement Today, plus a growing library of long-form analysis published on the ASC site.
Read the full archive →Not sure where to start?
Let's figure it out together.
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