NEVER Talk To the Police -- NEVER NEVER NEVER
Posted August 21st, 2008 by StaxBrix
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So, the police are investigating a crime, and in the course of their investigation, they come to chat with you about what you know or may have seen. You've done nothing wrong, so you have no objections to sitting down with the investigating officers and telling what little you may know. But the questioning becomes more intense, you find yourself stumbling over facts that don't seem important to you, but have the police pricking up their ears. And suddenly you realize that you're not just a helpful witness; now you're a suspect.
What did you do wrong?
The answer, unfortunately, is that you talked yourself into trouble -- yes, even innocent people can do that. You've probably heard that before from your paranoid brother-in-law, or a lawyer friend, but you didn't do anything. Who would have believed that your life could be turned upside down by a few words?
Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law is one of the people who does believe that loose lips sink ... well, not ships, but reputations and even lives. In an engaging and lively 27-minute lecture (I know, I know -- but it's worth watching), without assuming any malice on the part of the police, he explains just how you can talk yourself into trouble, and why you shouldn't talk to the police at all when suspicion wanders in your direction.
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The Anti-Terrorist...
The Anti-Terrorist gives this good advice too..... BUT he is Right on the Money! Walks the walk,
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Treg
The Anti-Terrorist...
The Anti-Terrorist gives this good advice too..... BUT he is Right on the Money! Walks the walk,
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
Always good advice! Don't
Always good advice! Don't get mad just politely decline, don't fall for the pressure of "do you have something to hide" etc. either politely decline again or just say No offense officer but I have been advised by my lawyer to never give a statement to police without first consulting him.
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I can confirm this advice
I can confirm this advice from first-hand experience. Never, ever, agree to tell the police anything without a lawyer.
Iceberg, below, also advised legal counsel.
Actually, lawyers are expensive and all they really accomplish is to delay a trial. Delaying the trial is worthwhile, but that's something you can do yourself.
As for having a lawyer present at your interrogation, what do you think he's going to tell you beyond the five hints I posted below?
Get a lawyer if you want, but I don't think they're worth the money. It's a very expensive way to get someone to hold your hand during a stressful moment.
I get interrogated every time something bad happens to someone who owes me money. But most of those people owed me less than $100. It wouldn't really be cost-effective if I felt compelled to hire a lawyer every time I got called in for an interrogation.
Collecting money isn't an adventure - it's a business. Be cost-effective.
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And don't call them a "fascist"
to their face. I did that once and got arrested. I was found not guilty though - was freedom of speech.
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Right - call them "fascist" on the phone
and then hang up.
You're under no obligation to talk to a cop on the phone. What do you think he's going to do if you hang up? Put out a warrant for your arrest? On what grounds? He doesn't have any evidence. That's why he called you in the first place - to try to drum some up.
Really, he just has a list of suspects (all the people that the so-called "victim" owes money to) and is calling them all to see if any of them want to confess. Don't be that one. Just hang up.
Just read on Steve Quayle's site...
In OK, 60 ordinary citizens received a request from the police to bring their .40 caliber handguns into the police precinct for testing.
That's right folks... no warrant, not probable cause. You own a similar firearm so you are automatically a suspect. We've got a crime to solve and you might be the perpetrator? Come on!
The really frightening part is.... 40 people showed up to comply!!!
Now they actually have a record of 40 individual ballistic fingerprints they didn't have before. Imagine what they can do with that kind of info!?
Two thirds of the idiots who received the letter turned over their weapon for testing. I'm appalled at the gun owners of OK. I thought better of the Sooners that to buy into such a flagrant disregard of people's civil rights.
Let's see what happens when the people try to get them back now.
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I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
And the other 20 people
must have something to hide. "Your Honor, we need warrants for these 20 suspects, their failure to voluntarily comply puts them under suspicion."
"must have something to hide"
Don't worry about it - they're going to think that of you anyway.
That remark reminds me of a friend of mine who is a bodybuilder and got caught with steroids in his gym bag. I wasn't there but, apparently, a cop came to the gym and asked to look in his bag.
"Why didn't you just refuse?" I asked him.
"But if I did that, he would have thought that I had something to hide."
Me, slapping my forehead: "But you DID have something to hide. You idiot!"
As LastAmericanStanding just said, "That's what warrants are for." The cop didn't have a warrant and the chance of his going to get one was negligible.
No, not complying isn't reasonable suspicion.
This was a fishing expedition, pure and simple. You cannot be compelled to provide evidence against yourself. That's what warrants are for.
This was an easy go-around for the cops knowing that most people, having nothing to hide, will comply.
Foolishly, because if they bought a used handgun, and the handgun was used in a crime previously, they will most certainly be arrested.
Remember (for now at least) you can only give away your constitutional rights, they can't be taken.
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
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Who do you speak to when a crime has been committed against you?
I hate talking to the police, but a couple of months ago we had to call them.
My husband gets meds from the VA mailed to him. Someone broke into our box...and opened the bottle...half where poured on the ground..and from what the cop and I picked up..and what was left in the bottle..8 where missing. We had to report it or the VA would not have replaced the medicine.
I know 99.99% of them..the ones I have spoke to in the past..can not be trusted..But the question really is..When a crime is committed against us..Who do we trust?
Freedom is another way to God...A corrupt government is a straight way to hell.
Judge Napolitano and his books
are great guides on your constitutional rights concerning the police, federal agents, etc......
Judge Napolitano is a great read!
Geez that guy talks fast!
But good. Very worthwhile.
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That advice has kept both my husband and I ..
out of a few false arrest possibilities.
Libera me, let the truth break, what my fears make--Leslie Phillips
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Always Always Always speak to your lawyer first. Never ever speak to the police without a lawyer present. I do not care if your innocent. Why do you think the Police tell you that you have the right to remain silent? A case can be thrown out of court if the Police fail to read you your Miranda rights and you can prove it. The only time I believe the police don't have to read you your rights is if you have a warrant out for your arrest. This should be common knowledge. This should be human rights 101.
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Never ever speak to the police without a lawyer present?
Actually, lawyers are expensive and all they really accomplish is to delay a trial. Delaying the trial is worthwhile, but that's something you can do yourself.
As for having a lawyer present at your interrogation, what do you think he's going to tell you beyond the five hints I posted below?
Get a lawyer if you want, but I don't think they're worth the money. It's a very expensive way to get someone to hold your hand during a stressful moment.
I get interrogated every time something bad happens to someone who owes me money. But most of those people owed me less than $100. It wouldn't really be cost-effective if I felt compelled to hire a lawyer every time I got called in for an interrogation.
Collecting money isn't an adventure - it's a business. Be cost-effective.
THIS is so true . I just
THIS is so true . I just got finished with a plea deal because of a charge against myself, that really had no basis until I talked to a POLICE officer on the phone, to give cooperating testimony, to an issue I had with a code officer. The police used my own words against me before I knew what was happening Don't admit to anything or dicuss anything without tallking to a lawyer FIRST. The police have the advantage & training to know just what to ask you in order for them to get incriminating answers.
Usually they will ask the same question several time to be sure of your answer. GOTCH YA. DON'T know nothing...IF you are involved.
NOW ,I believe in cooperation if there is no adgenda attached , but beware. ALSO : spys & investigators are running rampent on the public, at all levels of GOV"T. Right in your back yard.
OF course they are just doing their job. SOUNDS innocent enough.
The criminal justice system like to make innocent people into crimminals, this makes their job important, & they earn their paycheck..????
GO TO IT
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Hint #2
Interrogator: "Okay, you're free to go. Let me walk you out to your car. Want a soda?"
Interogatee: Absolute silence.
Obviously, you were always free to go. Nothing has changed. You are still being interrogated. There's no rule that says interrogations must take place in interrogation rooms - the really productive ones take place while ambling through parking lots sipping free soda.
Just walk out. This is NOT the time to try to "clear a few things up." It's not a debate and you're not there to score debating points. Just git.
Hint #5
This should be obvious but, if they offer you soda at the beginning of the interrogation, don't drink it.
You really don't want to be doing the I-gotta-go-to-the-bathroom boogie in your chair two hours later.
But, if it come to it, just go on the floor. Pants can be cleaned - a police record is forever.
Hint #4
Interrogator: Ominously setting a VCR tape on the table, "I don't think we need to play this. You know what's on it, don't you?"
Interrogatee: "So, where'd you get that tape? Stop at Blockbuster on your way to work?"
This is a verbatim conversation that I had with a detective. Obviously, it was a blank tape. After this ploy failed, we did the stare-down game for a while (see hint #3) and then he walked me to the front door (see hint #2).
Now, always the comedian, I take a microwaveable package of popcorn to interrogations. That way, when they produce a blank tape, I can whip out my popcorn and announce, "Cool! You brought a movie! I've got the popcorn. Let's watch!"
Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm so funny - I crack myself up!
Hint #3
Interrogator: Silence, stares at you, raises both eyebrows simultaneously.
Interrogatee: Silence. (Feel free to wiggle your eyebrows back at him if you want.)
There are a lot of people in this world who really cannot stand silence. If you just sit and look at them for ten or fifteen seconds, they will invariably open their mouths and babble like idiots.
The prisons are full of people like that who are actually innocent, but just couldn't seem to shut up at their interrogation. Try not to be one of them.
If you really can't stand silence, bring a kazoo to the interrogation. You can fill those uncomfortable silences by belting out a few bars of "Camptown Races."
Hint #1
Interrogator: "What would you say if I told you that [fingerprints, CCTV camera, nosy neighbor, etc] proves that you committed such-n-such crime?"
Interogatee: "Why speculate on what I would say IF you told me that? Just tell me and see for yourself what I say."
Obviously, the interogator is uncomfortable telling lies, so he prefaces his lies with "What would you say if I told you that [lie]?" In this way, he hasn't technically told a lie.
Call him on that and then just walk out. You're not under arrest unless you've been read your rights so, if you walk, you force him to either arrest you or watch you leave.
I've never been arrested in such a situation - they just watched me walk out.
VERY worthwhile watching
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thanks for the video,
The 2 videos that are linked are very important
The information contained might keep you out of government prison cages.