My dad was a Houston police officer for over 20 years. He said this to me when I was a young boy. Policemen are legally allowed to lie to you. You do not answer questions, no matter what they tell you. You do not open the door to your home. You talk thru the door locked and deadbolted. If you have been arrested, you remain silent. You do not talk to anybody while handcuffed. Not even other prisoners! You have the constitutional rights to remain silent. You are not legally required to sign any documents! You talk only to your lawyer. You do not talk on any phone while being arrested. They listen to all your phone calls. If pulled over in your vehicle, you do not give a police officer the right to search your car! My dad said the justice system has been corrupted to benefit certain people of power. And these same people abuse their power and get away with it everyday! He said look at all our politicians they are lawyers, not true men of integrity or honesty! Just good liars!
The other prisoners are the highlight of your post those who don’t talk or they ain’t got what they want out of they’ll use a jail snitch not even the criminal gangs they’re in know they’re snitches or an undercover who asks you a lot of questions like what are they gonna do to me I got caught for this or that how long do you think they’ll give me hoping you’ll ask questions and say things to them about yourself never do that
Absolutely true. My father was a state trooper and said those nearly exact words to me when I was a kid about to get his Driver License. Key take away: STFU and Lawyer Up ASAP!!
@@ScottSavre no my dad did not go along with the lieing, or any mis direction to Houston citizens. He worked in vice, Chicano squad, narcotics, and radio patrol.
I once had a police officer show up at my house, It was late about 10:00 PM, told me that she had bad news about my parents. Turns out they had both been killed in a car accident. Asked to come in and talk to me, so under the circumstances I let her in. And I say let her in because as soon as I said she could come in, two more officers came out of the dark and bum rushed past me into the apartment. The original officer asked me if there was anyone else there, it was a small place and all the rooms were immediately accessible from the front room, as she was asking me if anyone else was there, {there wasn't and I told her so} and she asked several times in quick succession in different ways, her two compatriots that had rushed in, quickly spread out and and did a quick room by room search of the place. And then after searching the apartment stood behind me while the original officer asked several more probing questions before she went on to tell me more about the accident that had killed both my parents only hours before. I've done a lot of things in my life, but I never felt more violated in my life as those cops made me feel. Without a warrant I will NEVER let a cop in to my home again.
Remember the Patriot Act? See something, say something? The Constitution disagrees with that. Unfortunately, too many people think law enforcement officials are to protect and serve when the Constitution states the role of the government against the general public.
I carried a badge and a gun for 39 years. I was asked by a family member, if the police ever showed up at our house and requested to search, I told her, the first thing out of my mouth would be, "Do you have a search warrant?" She said, "You were a cop for 39 years, why wouldn't you cooperate?" I told her you never let a cop in to perform a search without a warrant. It's the principle of the matter. If I get stopped for some reason on a traffic stop and they asked to search my vehicle, same thing, I need to see a warrant. The threat of getting one quickly won't worry me. I will wait for a specified time. Traffic stops, unless there is probable cause for them to do more, then I will wait. Traffic stops have a time limit and keeping a person for too long will be a violation of your civil rights.
Good on you, hope you are/were one of the good ones sure seems like it with you making this post. I want to love and respect the police, but I admittedly fear them because of the "few bad apples" however few or many that is? I have no way of knowing I just know there's enough to blur the lines sadly. Thank you for your service assuming you served with honor and integrity.
@@Achill101 Oh, they CAN misquote you. It happens all the time. Just leave out a word, or a letter here and there and: "I didn't do it" becomes: "I did it." real fast. Demand a lawyer and shut the hell up.
And if you're silent can't they make up whatever lie they want? They should never be able to say "well he said this" and that makes you guilty. What you say can lead them to clues for evidence but without a sworn statement it's only their word against yours.
@@V2RocketScientist - who will be believed in court, you or a police officer? . . . If they question you as a suspect, even if you're not arrested, demand a lawyer and shut up until you have one.
Just a few days after moving into an apartment I got a visit from the police looking for someone I had never heard of. I said I had just moved in and I didn't know anything about a previous tenant. Then the police asked if they could come in and look around, just to make sure the person they were looking for wasn't there. I told them that wasn't going to happen. They said they would return later that day with a search warrant, so why not just let them in. I told them if they had a search warrant I would comply with it, but they were not getting in without one. Over the next 6 years I never saw these cops again.
I had a similar experience at an Airbnb that we rented for 3 months. Initially I tried to be helpful but soon realized that they felt I was hiding the guy in the house and they started to get real assertive. This was unbelievable given the circumstances. Finally they threatened to get an arrest warrant if I didn't produce my ID. (The were looking for a registered sex offender & I had no desire to be linked to someone like that) I told them to get off the property until they had the warrant & filed a complaint on them the next day. What little respect I held for the police died that day. Everyone is guilty in their eyes so being innocent doesn't make you safe from their actions.
I had a very similar event. Had just moved into the place a few days prior, it was a Saturday night and I'm just siting there jamming on guitar and there was that hard knock that either meant police, or you were about get into an altercation. Well I knew that a drug dealer had lived there a few months prior, so I grabbed my handgun and answered the door, kind of exposing the left side of my body while keeping the gun behind the door. Well there stands two cops. Oh shit.... I thought. Same thing as you, they wanted to come in and see if that dude was there. The lead cop tried to do the invade my space thing to get me to move out of the doorway. I braced the door against my chest and put my left hand out, without touching him mind you, and authoritatively told them they were not coming in my house without a warrant. Honestly I wasn't the "keep the police within the bounds of their authority" type back then, I didn't have any weed in the house, and I probably would have let them come in. But there was that damn gun still in my right hand, literally 20 inches from the lead cop. Of course It was pointed down, but I couldn't do anything but keep holding it, and I was praying this cop didn't try to get physical. They of course threatened a warrant, and I of course called their bluff because what other choice did I have at this point? Thankfully they gave it up and left. Might have had something to do with the almost zero temps I had been forcing them to stand in for the last 15/20 minutes lol.
40 years ago, I was told, by a new assistant prosecutor that there's no such thing as truth. Only, who has the better argument. I was shocked, back then. Not anymore.
The American judicial system is based on how well off you are financially. Uncountable times a person WHO IS GUILTY gets off because of a slick weasely lawyer and innocent people have gone to prison because they didn’t know their rights, weren’t smart enough to keep their mouths shut and were stuck with a court appointed attorney. Cops are not your friends, stop thinking they are.
I once told a group of kids that keyed my truck "never mess with a person that has more money than you do". They all got community time and I never got a dime to fix my truck. At least the suffered some.
@@tmo4330 No he/she is a lawyer. Like the police they are not required to tell the truth & nothing but the truth. They are paid to argue about what is the truth.
@@warrenpuckett4203 And..............Truth is not determined by popular vote. Example: O.J's lawyer was not paid to find the truth, he was paid to keep the truth from being found out. "Argue about what is the truth" as you put it. Do we need professional trained jurors to make the proper verdicts today?
I had a detective tell me in an interrogation room that he found my fingerprints at the scene of a crime. It was a bold statement considering my prints had never been taken before. I was tempted to tell him I was wearing gloves at the time, but decided against it. The room had one very tiny mirrored window. He pointed at the window and explained there was a witness, and I was just in a lineup where that person identified me. Hmm, a lineup of just me? Yeah, they never did charge me with anything.
Yeah I'm glad you didn't use the "I was wearing gloves" comment because they would've taken that as an admission, even if it was sarcasm. It reminds me of a Judge Judy episode where a woman claimed two kids stole her purse. Judge Judy asked what the contents of the purse were and she was going over it and one of the guys corrected her and said one of the things she listed wasn't in it. Judge Judy laughed at immediately ruled in favor of he woman.
I got called to the office (I was in high school) and taken by these to detectives to the station and left alone in an interrogation-room for about 45 minutes. At the end, one of them opens at the door and asks me if I had anything to say? I immediately responded with, “Yeah. What did I do?” Without a word they drove me back to school. I was friends with one of the detective’s sons. His son told me his dad could be a real a**hole. 😮
@@tomm1583 No. According to his "cool story, bro" he didn't leave fingerprints, because he wore gloves and they couldn't have matched them with his, because they have never been taken before.
Guaranteed, if a cop convinces you to let him search your property without a warrant, they already have the "evidence" in their pocket ready for planting. Don't consent to search, say nothing but "Lawyer!"
And, when they say they are going to search you, or your vehicle state: “I do not consent to any search of my person or my property, including my vehicle. Any such search is illegal, and will be conducted over my protest.”
An Officer searching my vehicle back when I was dumb enough to allow it repeatedly tried to get me to say that “I was responsible for everything in my vehicle”. I never did, but he tried so hard that to this day I wonder if that was the line he needed to cross for his local Judge to let him get away with planting evidence.
IANAL but it’s only perjury if you’re under oath; though you still shouldn’t lie to the police. Your best bet is to state that you aren’t going to answer questions and then hold to that statement. The officer may get upset that you aren’t answering their questions, but don’t give any statements that could later be used against you. Anything other than, “I’m going to exercise my right to remain silent.” can only hurt you.
it's not a level playing field, that's why you have to keep your mouth shut until you can get a lawyer (and even then he will likely tell you to keep your mouth shut).
So true. I was set up, and I spoke to an officer because i had nothing to hide. Yet, the detective tried to manipulate my truth with the lie from someone else. Took my cellphone because of my voluntary statement. It cost me more to hire an attorney, but the truth prevailed. I refused to let it happen to me. Even tho I beat my case, I still feel violated. It hurts to be treated like that. My best advice is never talk to anyone but your attorney. Dont even so much as whisper to yourself when left alone in a room. Protect your rights!!!!! They will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING to violate them.
I did 8 years I'm combination of probation prison and parole based on a cop lies. Your lucky of fortunate that you had the money for a lawyer. And or the support system. Fk the courts And the Government. The cop I was involved with was 100% lier. And the Surveillance video PROVED IT. ON THE DAY trial date was to be set. I signed a plea. Why. Bc Maricopa AZ has jury's that love cops. Regardless of the situation. It was either that of roll the dice and of I lost. 18 years. Or 4 years probation. I need up getting a PO that was AGAIN. ANOTHER LIER. SO.. I said fknit. And rejected my probation. Went to sentencing. Got my sentence stacked. Mother fkn judge. Then did 3 and 2 Did 3 year inside. With 9 months Parole. Parole was easier than probation. All this said. The fkn cops lied..and even the Public Pretender was a shit head. Wanted me to sign. I was like NO. IM NOT GU.GUILTY fired her and got a Pro Bono lawyer. He was great We almost went to trial. But bc Maricopa AZ are COP LOVERS. I was roped into a plea. So yeah. Fk off a you fkn pigs fks. PsOS. Liers .all.
I was accused of rpe/attempted murder by a cop. He told all these lies. I was dropped as a suspect when the guy went back to kill the woman. I have no doubt that crooked Columbus, OH cop would have found a way to frame me had the criminal not gone back to kill his victim to silence her. Being innocent means nothing to cops. Closing the case is all they care about. I'm glad you were cleared.
@@-BUFFALOManSadly many police care more about their conviction rate then actually arresting the right person. The best protection from the bad apples is to not talk to police without your lawyer. And of course follow the advice in this video.
I was a policeman and a federal agent for 20 years. I became angry with, and eventually left, with honor, my organization because of their emphasis on RIC (Recoveries, Indictments, and Convictions). My main complaint was, where's the "O"? That is, what happened to OBJECTIVITY? Isn't our mission to find the truth, whether it acquits the accused or not, rather than to just put people in prison? I certainly did put some people in prison who really needed to be there. They deserved it and they know it. But in some of my investigations, I ended up proving that the accused DID NOT commit any crime. Was I rewarded for that? For keeping a person out of prison? NO. Not even a mention in my performance report. Don't fall for anything the police say. Take it from a retired federal agent. The police are NOT your friends. And you don't have to say anything to the police no matter what they tell you. Just tell them "I want a lawyer."
It's sad that even when cops/detectives know it's not you, they will still push for a conviction. They don't care that you didn't do it; they only care that they get you to admit it so that they move closer to ranking up within the brotherhood.
“I invoke and refuse to waive my Fourth Amendment right to be free of any unlawful search or seizure.” “I invoke and refuse to waive my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.” “I invoke and refuse to waive my Sixth Amendment right to have an attorney of my choice present during any and all questioning.” Then comes the tough part for us guys: actually keeping our pie-holes shut.
You temporarily invoked the 5th and then thought better of it and decided to waive it when you spoke again to invoke the 6th. That's what the prosecutor will argue.
@@ChadBoss-qr4hl Not true, he can surely try but it will fall flat in court as once he does invoke the 6th, the interrogation ends right there. If the cops do persist, nothing said from then on can be used, it is inadmissible.
@@Mortlupo I don’t think you understand what the sixth amendment is for. It’s for guaranteeing a speedy trial and impartial jury. In the OP’s scenario she invoked her right to remain silent and then started talking again. A savvy prosecutor can argue she changed her mind. There’s also little point to invoking the 6th during arrest and interrogation as that has nothing to do with your trial. It’s better to invoke the 5th and then shut up.
@@ChadBoss-qr4hl I most certainly do understand the 6th amendment and it's not being followed, especially by the feds, the average federal detainee has been waiting over three years in a cell for their trials.
"I don't consent to any searches, seizures, or questions. If I am not under arrest at this time, leave me alone. Direct all further inquiries to my attorney. Are we done here?"
Will never happen, the whole point of compulsory schooling is to brainwash kids into believing that they are obligated to fund the paychecks and pensions of parasties like their teachers and these blue costume wearing welfare queens.
Children younger then that are being accosted by cops. I would argue they should begin exposing children to this as young as possible. By the 9th grade this will be so ingrained in them as to be second nature.
It was included in 9th grade studies until right wing America started taking over school boards. An ignorant society is easier to control. Everyone needs to study the Constitution and understand the rights they have and learn how to exercise them. Too many people believe that cops have free reign in this country.
A has-been civilian peace officer stalks me online & harasses me via various e-means. They've succeeded in a slander campaign, as well. They've lost control & their facade is being seen through, so they strike out at all threats to their false identity
People generally grow up with the mindset that they will be better off if they tell the truth. That is true, but only under the condition that your two choices are tell the truth and tell a lie. If you have a third option, which is to remain silent, THAT is ALWAYS the smartest move.
You are better off telling the truth, if and only if the people you are telling it to are interested in your well being, have good judgment, and are both sane and not crippled by misinformation. The chance of all those things being true of someone with a professionally trained antisocial personality disorder are minimal.
@@peterrose5373I disagree. I once had a car accident...hit a guy at night I didn't see who didn't have his headlights on. I was real shook up as I was explaining the events to the Trooper. He told me he thought I was drunk. I have never even tasted alcohol in my life. It would have been better for me to be quiet and let the witnesses speak the truth while I calmed down.
@@johnsonfamilyhomeschool675 YOu say you disagree, but you basically restate my point. Your example seems to bear out my position, The officer in question did not have good judgment, was crippled by misinformation (self supplied), and probably not especially interested in your well being.
I had a cop ask me why I have such a disdain for his profession, and that was AFTER he tried to pin me for anything and couldn't. He even looked over to see if I had applied my HANDBRAKE and CUT MY WHEELS, because in Canada, you can be fined for not applying your " mechanical" brake, and for not turning your wheels in IF you are on an incline, directly after turned your car off, You can STILL be behind the wheel of the car, BUT if the engine has been turned off, you HAVE to do those 2 things ...and that is the ONLY time you can remove your seatbelt. When the cops asked me that question ...I said " You have the ONLY job in the world where not only are you legally, lawfully allowed to LIE to me, but it is ENCOURAGED by your Superiors" ...I would NEVER take up a profession where I lie all day, every day in order to pay my mortgage. I believe that ONE of the SINS against GOD is to lie, actually it's number 10: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. He said lying helps him to get the "bad guys" off the street. I said " Why don't you just shoot them in the head as soon as you see them?" ..." oh yeah, those DAM body worn cams eh, Officer"...
Was pulled over bc cop thought I was my gf (she's 110 lbs with hair to her ass n im 220 with a buzz cut) and claimed her license was suspended (found out later it wasn't). Then asked if I was always pissed off when I got pulled over. He then proceeded to look for a reason to give me a ticket for having an attitude
Good on all points except 'deny everything'. Say NOTHING. Even a denial can be used against you. Operating under the assumption they have lawful reason to detain. Spout your name and date of birth before they even get their note pad out. Then start reciting your Miranda rights. Then remain silent. They couldn't even get you on failure to ID at that point.
Don’t go in for questioning, let them get a subpoena and then you go in as required… and then you tell them first thing, “I want to speak with my lawyer”… and they can’t press you for questions… and if they do, they can cause a dismissal from illegal questioning after asking for a lawyer
Caveat: once you ask for that lawyer and say you're not going to talk then shut up and don't talk. Don't talk about the weather don't talk about your clothes don't even ask for a soda because once you start talking then you've started the clock all over again
My wife loves to watch investigative discovery type shows and every single time I say when they call you up and say hey will you come down and talk to us do not go down there and sit in the little room. Whether you know you're innocent or not really doesn't matter do not go down and sit in the little room
Wrong! Give the subpoena to your lawyer and let him schedule a time, so he can be there with you before any questioning takes place! After each question, pause, look at your lawyer and wait for his nod (okay) before answering any question. He will advise on how to answer any questions that may need to be answered or object to any question that is not.
I've had police officers lie in their statements for a court proceeding I was involved in. When I brought it up to my lawyer, he told me not mention it in court or to anyone involved in the case. It was truly a bold faced lie and now, thanks to your video, I understand their motives.
They’ll even lie just to get a conviction. Especially in traffic court. Your guilty no matter what the facts are. With traffic court it’s all about the money and not about guilt, innocence, or justice …
Man, you spoke a mouthful 1000% true. My attorney just turned and looked at me and said "...i don't know what just happened in there, but I can help you legally file bankruptcy on this judgement if you want a way out." Demonic, a courtroom full of liars on the stand and I was the only one that spoke the chronological truth, and even at that they cut me off from testimony about 80% of the way through. Demons or Judges don't like to hear the truth about themselves and of who did what. I threw their whopping mud-slinging right back at them four months later, all of them. Two years later the guy who hit me died. He was about the wealthiest machine shop in the entire Valley.......... Liars, bearing false witness. "......i had my head down at that time, I didn't see anything."
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive " When we lie we are in serious danger of losing the ability to discern the difference between truth and deception. This happens to cops too, they think they remember what part of their interrogation was truth and lie, but they too get tripped up by their own lies and then they lose the ability to recognise when they have an innocent person in front of them.
The very wise and insightful true about most liers in General!!!! Especially people who lie frequently!!! Police or anyone!!! Also when they accuse others of lying it’s because they are!!! Or whatever they accuse others of; it’s what they are doing! But yes; they mix up their lies with truth! But i think to get the bad folks police must lie many times! But they overdo it!!!! Probably
So true. Everyone is human. Bad doctors and bad lawyers because out of pride Mom and Dad insisted that they be. They may have legally passed their exams but that is it. When people are busy, stressed or hate their lives, their memory is very poor. Very, very poor and could careless about the damage that they do too you. They know it would takes eons of time and tremendous cash reserves to prove them guilty in return. Getting a civil judgement is one thing, getting it paid is another. Look at what O.J. Simpson did to the Brown and Goldman families. They still have not received a penny from him as far as i know. Cops are no different, though there are some that are true Christians and do their very best to account before God at there work.
Pure gold knowledge. Had both my kids watch this video, then quizzed them why/how to answer when stopped by police. Bless you sir for dropping this wonderful knowledge.
@@johnelliott3617 No, it isn't. Something like 5% of people in prison are innocent. The founders didn't set up our legal system to catch as many criminals as possible, they set it up to avoid punishing innocent people. That's why you have the right to remain silent. So some overzealous cop, who's convinced you're guilty can't twist your words to railroad you into a conviction.
@@johnelliott3617 there are two type of criminals, those out of law and those in charge of the law; top to bottom from politicians/bankers/corporations to miltiary and police, never trust any of them especialy if you are innocent, for the police thrives doing business with the outlaw but need some scapegoats to jail so they ca keep their outlaw friends free, you are a target just for being innocent.
Something that needs to be stressed more is that you should always AFFIRMATIVELY and CLEARLY invoke your fifth amendment right. In Salinas v Texas 570 US 178 an individual just stayed quiet and didn't invoke his fifth amendment right. The prosecution then used his silence against him. Always invoke the right and keep quiet.
Since we all know cops can lie when talking to you, why not ask "Are you allowed to lie to me during this conversation?" If the cop says yes, then reply "Why would I want to talk to a liar?" If he says no, then reply "You have just proven that you are a liar. Why would I want to talk to a liar?"
I like that one! I never smoked in my life and I only ever tasted alcohol when I Was 12 (Thanksgiving I was allowed to sip red win, white wine, and Budweiser) I never liked any of them so I never drank since. I don't see the point of it nor the desire. I like knowing what I did the light before. I am allergic to Tabaco so any type of smoking felt taboo to me. I still wait for the day that cops try this stunt on me when I go to the city because it will backfire on them so quickly, they won't know what hit them.@@secondchance6603
The most important one imo is cops telling you they have video of you doing X. This kills me bc if you did, you wouldnt be here asking me to "tell you what happened" and you would absolutely have already arrested me.
It's also a stupid lie, because if you're actually innocent, you know they're lying immediately, which means they have nothing on you, because if they'd have used that first if they did.
It also seems like talking to the cops destroy any potential plea bargains once the case gets going. If I am going to rat myself out, it will be to a prosecutor who has offered a deal and with the consent and presence of my own attorney. Giving your input to a detective seems to erase that chance and destroy any bargaining power. There is just not a good reason to skip getting an attorney before speaking.
The police are literally in no position to ever help you out beyond just letting you go. They have zero pull with the prosecutor or judge. If you want to wheel and deal there get a lawyer to do it for you.
In 1988, I was selected for a jury trial for 2 counts of murder and kidnapping. The defense attorney in cross examination of the detective had questioned why the detective told the defendant that they used an infra-red light to determine if he had fired a gun, when the detective knew that infra-red light device was not admissible as evidence. The final exchange between the defense attorney and detective has stayed with me to this day, "You deliberately lied to the defendant" , reply by the detective, "to get to the truth"
#4, they won't testify for you. 99.9% of the time I would agree. But one time I was doing 75 in a 45. I thought the speed limit was 55. I got pulled over. He had me dead to rights. I apologized several times. I admitted I knew I was speeding, but thought I was speeding in a 55, not a 45. I told I would never knowingly do 75 in a 45. He took pity on me and wrote the ticket as 65 in a 45 and told me that if I show to court, it might get reduced more. So I show up to court. It's a very small courtroom and rather informal (small rural city). The cop stood next to me. I pleaded guilty and told the judge the same story (thought the speed limit was 55). The judge politely listened and bent his head down to start writing notes. The cops leans over and whispers "change your plea to nolo". If you don't know, nolo is the same in a criminal court. A few seconds later the judge is looking at me again and I ask if I can change my plea to nolo. He asks me "Are you doing this on the advice of council?". I said "I just thought it was a good idea". The judge then looks directly at the cop (I guess the judge saw him talk to me). The cop says "I was just trying to save him points on his record". The judge reduced the ticket to 9 miles over the speed limit (which is not sent to the DMV, and your insurance never finds out). I said thank you, paid my $100 fine on the spot and was outta there. Politest cop & judge I've ever met.
I worked with a retired cop who told me, "98% of the people I spoke to, convicted themselves". He was a nice guy and would invite them to the station for coffee then begin chatting with them. He simply didn't tell them he'd studied the case thoroughly and had interviewed everyone involved except for the guy he was looking for.
Never ever ever accept an invitation to voluntarily come down to the police station house for a friendly chat. Unless it's your blood relative and it really is just a friendly visit.
@@CODY1989...........Wrong. Making false statements to law enforcement are chargeable offenses. Which is why is it best to say nothing except I plead the 5th and remain silent.
I find it particularly disgusting that police can legally lie to you, but lying to them is a crime. Isn't that - in principle at least - a violation of the First Amendment?
It is not illegal to lie to a cop (FBI maybe). As a retired cop I once lied to a suspected arson by telling him I saw him starting a fire from across the field. It was a shot in the dark, but it paid off. He admitted to starting all the recent fires. I wonder how many lives I saved by using that lie.
@@yelwing Lying to a federal agent, including FBI agents, is a federal felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison. I am not sure how telling multiple lies in the same interrogation would be treated. It's possible that the government might charge each lie as a separate count, but I'm not sure whether the sentences upon conviction would run concurrently (at the same time) or consecutively (one after the other). I never practiced criminal law, but I worked in a legal clinic assisting federal inmates as a law student. I had one "client" who had originally been sentenced to more than 30 years for selling marijuana. Now, the amount of marijuana was measured in multiple tons, not ounces, but most of her sentence was because of firearm enhancements. Using or carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime was punishable by a mandatory 5 years for a first offense and an additional mandatory 20 years for a second. When she was arrested, she was charged with two counts of "using or carrying" a gun on separate occasions. That initially added 25 years to her sentence. Fortunately for her, after she was sentenced, the Supreme Court held that the standard jury instruction for those enhancements was fatally flawed, and every federal inmate sentenced under that instruction had their enhancements vacated. Getting her sentence reduced by 25 years enabled her to transfer to the minimum security prison camp where I met her. There may be some states/cities where lying to a police officer is illegal, but I am not aware of any. But even if you can't be charged with lying to a police officer, being caught in a lie is going to hurt your credibility with the judge and/or jurors. You are much better off saying nothing EXCEPT, "I want to speak to a lawyer." You should definitely ask for a lawyer for a multitude of reasons. First, because once you ask for a lawyer, you may not be questioned without your lawyer being present. If they question you without a lawyer after you asked for one, nothing you say in response to those questions is admissible. Two very important things to keep in mind. First, you have to say explicitly that you want a lawyer. Saying something like, "Maybe I should talk to a lawyer," is not enough to invoke your right to counsel. Second, even if you have properly invoked your right to counsel, only what you say in response to questioning is inadmissible. If you say something without being questioned, that would be admissible. The bottom line: To best protect your rights when being questioned by the police, always ask for a lawyer and don't say anything else unless and until your lawyer tells you to. To return to the subject of the video, while the police may lie to you, they may not lie to your lawyer.
@@yelwingI don't even trust that you got the right guy and didn't throw the first person you saw in a room and badger them for 17 hours until he broke down mentally and you could pin it on him.
@@yelwing No. I'm referencing the specific case settled two days ago, of Thomas Perez Jr, who reported his father missing, and then was thrown in a room for 17 hours and badgered and kept awake and denied his psychiatric medication, while they told him they'd found his dad's body, said they had all this evidence on him, and then they threatened to euthanize his dog, brought it in to say goodbye and all, and just broke this man down until he confessed to a murder that never even fuckin happened. His dad came back later that day. Instead of telling him his dad's alive and releasing him, they threw him in a different room for 3 more days, saying he was crazy. He won 900,000 dollars. 3 of the 4 officers involved still have their jobs and the other retired with pension. Imagine if his dad had actually gone missing? He'd be in prison for a murder that never happened.
1) Cops can use whatever you say BEFORE they arrest you, even if you haven't been "Mirandized". The Miranda ruling only applies to once you're placed under arrest. 2) Unless you're under arrest, don't go down to the station to "clear things up", and don't allow the police into your home. They might arrest you or bust into your home, UNLAWFULLY, anyway, but that's why you always record, Record, RECORD all encounters with law enforcement. Once you and they are engaged in conversation, and you don't have an attorney present, they can claim that you told them...WHATEVER. 3) Whether or not you take the preliminary breath test depends upon your legal OBLIGATION to do so...like, if you're already on DUI probation (a typical condition) or under 21, typically you HAVE to, else, save in a few states that require the PBT IN ADDTION to the evidential breath or blood test taken, post-arrest, which IS what you gave "implied consent" to take when you got your driver's license. Else, DON'T. And don't perform any "Field Sobriety Tests", which are NOT tests of sobriety at all, but rather, of divided attention and/or coordination. Typically, and this is bad news, the officer(s) have ALREADY decided to arrest you for DUI, and want the FSTs to substantiate probable cause for that arrest. Why GIVE it to them, freely? Yes, the cops will get "huffy", and say that they'll call it a "DUI refusal" (it's not, but they can LIE about that ALSO), or they may threaten to charge you with "obstruction" for failure to "obey" their "order" to take the FST, but that's not a legal order a cop can give. 4) As a general rule, IF the cops ALREADY "have the goods" on you, they've ALREADY arrested you and/or obtained a search warrant. And if that's they case, there's NOTHING you can say or do that will prevent that! But if you allow yourself to be tricked, then you're vulnerable to whatever shenanigans they're up to, like PLANTING EVIDENCE. Remember the defense attorney's dictum "Consent (to the police) cures ALL (FOR the police, not YOU!)".
As a kid, I was accused of committing arson at a nearby building. But when the cops came to my home to arrest me my father asked when did this occur. When they said "just a few days ago," my father nearly went ballistic! Seems the real arsonists did this fire while we were on vacation in California! We lived in Colorado and we had gone there by car.
I'm not a cop. I can legally lie to you. Your boss, your mom, your cousin, your kids, your wife, and your girlfriend can legally lie to you. Just saying, if you don't communicate with people who can legally lie to you, you are likely to be lonely.
because it is not in your best interest to be rebellious toward an officer, but rather to be passive aggressive in using what rightfully belongs to you, YOUR LAWFUL RIGHTS. know them and understand what they mean. Fear of what you do not know is your worst enemy, and when your enemy senses fear, He becomes a predator looking for what is weak in order to out perform you.. Why do you think all they wanted in Vietnam was body counts? To justify themselves for war and to the taxpayer. Police are no different, even the best officers have conduct rules they must obey according to law of superiority for legal and domination purposes. They have to justify their existence to the taxpayers and too the courts.
I was asked to take a breathalyzer once about 40 years ago. I was at RAF Lakenheath and had just come from the NCO club with a bunch of friends. The SPs stopped me and asked where I had been. Well, the Parking lot went from the NCO club, around the Class VI store, past the bowling alley to them. It was pretty obvious where I came from. "In the NCO club, sir." "Have you had anything to drink tonight?" "Yes, sir." "Would you step out of the car, please?" "Certainly, sir." He goes through spiel about giving me a breath test and how it works and so on. I agree. I blow on it real hard, and he goes, "Uh, you don't seem to be blowing it in. You need to blow in this tube and not hold your breath." So I try again. And again. This is frustrating him, so he is watching me carefully to be sure I am blowing in the tube. He asks me how much I had to drink that night. "Three or four, sir. I think. I don't remember." He goes to talk to the other SP, and try to figure why the machine isn't showing anything. My three drunk friends in the car are rolling with laughter. This isn't helping with the SPs. 😄 The other SP gets another unit out from his car, comes over, and repeats the process. I blow on the tube again and again and again. They can't figure out why two machines don't seem to be working and keep checking how I am blowing in the tube. Finally, the second SP asks, "How many drinks did you have tonight?" About three or four, sir." "And what were you drinking?" "Coke, sir" "Why didn't you tell us that sooner?" "You didn't ask, sir." The rest were unmentionable words about getting in the car and getting out of there. 😄😄😄
@@steveconyers4173 - The idea is to mess with them and hold them up, not get slapped around and haul off for the night. Probably 20 or more cars of intoxicated airmen went past them to their dorms while the SPs were fooling with me. And then I went home after.
That's how innocent people end up in jail. And they'll especially lie to you if they think you are "their guy." When you could just be wearing similar clothes and have a similar hair style to the real suspect. Cops don't pay attention to fashion trends. 20 guys in the immediate area could have a similar hoodie or jacket.
Sat through a case a few days ago where the only "evidence" was the "Perp" had a canada goose jacket same as the one in the cctv footage. Not a soul cared to ask how many people in the country owned that identical jacket - not even the guys own defence lawyer. He got remanded into custody on only the fact he was wearing that type jacket when arrested - not another shred of evidence against him. I was shouting inside "Damn, Mr Laywer - ask how many identical jackets canada goose sold in that area ffs!!!" - but nobody asked, so the guy went down. Canada goose jackets are as common as muck where that guy lived - fashion item. "We identified him from his jacket" was the entirety of the evidence - it could have been OJ Simpson wearing that jacket from the footage, it was crap, no way of making out faces. His lawyer missed that simple question & away he went in cuffs on serious firearms charges. FFS like... The cops - naturally - spun the jacket thing like it was rock - "We found his dna on the jacket" - yeah bhoi, it was his jacket ffs - why wouldn't his dna be on it? Anyone else buy the same exact jacket?? He the only one???? Lawyers - and I generalise here but with qualified experience - well they ain't always all that. Often, they're rubbish. There isn't any guarantee they are even on your side - they may be offering you up so another of their clients walks - schnide deals, blah blah. Often, they blatantly aren't on your side. What you gonna do, Pal?
I think it is more accurate to say that they don't care/use it as convenient rather than that they don't pay attention to it. They are pretty good at their craft, the problem is that craft is dishonest.
Answering even an "innocent" question can be enough for an arrest. Cop stops you and says, "Where you comin' from?" You haven't done anything wrong so you say, "Work". Turns out the guy who robbed the liquor store drove a car similar to yours and your work is in the same neighborhood as the liquor store. You got the right car (close enough) and just admitted to being in the vicinity of the crime. There's no money in your car because your accomplice took it (says the prosecutor). You're screwed.
I've watched video's of a cop thrashing a petite black girl being arrested, thrown to the ground , cuffed, because she looked like a suspect who was6'2" long braided hair, hood, jeans, white Tenny runners. She had short hair wore a long sleeved shirt, slacks. I believe the guy they were looking for was white. That's how bad the cops are.
I find it odd that the corrupt courts have made it so the only reasonable position a citizen can take is that everything the cop says is a lie. How could you *not* take this position? If there were consequences for lying however, I’d be much more likely to believe them. It’s just so crazy to me they’ve set up the system like this. It just increases animosity and emotions during police encounters. What a horrible, corrupt judge who made that decision.
It's worse, they over-charge and then hold you for months before trial so you will then plea for the lesser charge that you may have actually done. They should be barred from over-charging and plea bargaining should be outlawed so they would only charge what they can actually prove and no more multiple charges for the same act. Being able to charges people for say seven different ways for murder is wrong.
I'd like to see this reformed, among other things such as stopping "law enforcement" from committing armed robbery. Even when they're not trying to do "forfeiture", the asymmetric scenario of "we can freely lie to you but you are penalized for lying to us" makes every encounter inherently hostile. Not always physically hostile, but a 1 way expectation of trust/honesty *by law* is an adverse relationship. As human beings, we don't tolerate this generally, even in very basic interactions like "coworker from a different department". As the law is written, a police encounter with an innocent person is more hostile than an encounter with a random stranger, before a word is spoken or an action is taken. This is bad for the population as a whole, but it is also not great if you want to attract honest people who diligently do a real job to police forces. Nobody who is conscientious would want to be an officer right now, because of what police are expected do and get away with. Not too shocking when many officers are not conscientious then! Not only are good actors screened out, bad actors are not penalized + rewarded...
The police, when they tell you that anything you do or say will be used against you, are engaging in an act of forced honesty. We have seen that when left to their own devices, the police really aren't interested in actual justice, just numbers that need justification. The bottom line is that when the police tell you that all you do and say will be used against you, that is the total extent of their telling you the truth. The rest are fishhooks.
If you consent to a search, that gives them the authority to dismantle the car or house in their search. They can cut the tires open, cut the doors open, cut the oil pan off the engine, tear out the headliner, cut open the seats, tear out all the drywall in your house, cut open all your furniture, cut open your mattresses, cut open your kitchen and bathroom cabinets, tear out your bathtubs, tear up all your carpets. And so forth. With a search warrant, depending on how the warrant is written, they can do much the same. But maybe they don’t have enough information to justify a warrant. Search warrants are one of the hazards that place law abiding citizens at risk. Fortunately, cops rarely go to the extreme with searches. But they can when they want.
They are in the habit of lying and can and will lie to get a warrant. "I got the information from a Confidential Informant..." who just happens to be a lying buddy in the police department.
You forgot one.. They will also tell you that your alibi didn't checkout. did have a so called witness so they didn't bother to check his air tight alibi. He plays bass in a bad and was 3 hours away at the time on time stamped video. HE demanded a lawyer . They left him in the interrogation room far another hour then told him his alibi didn't checkout. So there is number 13.
Another super common tactic is to lie to you about a more serious charge. "I clocked you doing 77 in a 55. Why were you driving so fast?" "What? I was only doing 64." Boom you just admitted to doing 64 in a 55. Even "when was the last time you had a drink?" "Yesterday." Now you just admitted to drinking then eventually driving. Now they have reasonable suspicion that you may be drunk. Blow all zeros? "Well you're obviously on something so we want a blood test." If anything shows up that could possibly impair your driving even if it's been days you can still get a DUI. Even withdrawals can be considered for a DUI for even prescriptions.
How is it that if you stay quiet, you end up in arrested, in custody for some time based on what can be considered absurd and irrational claims. And then the arresting officer is protected by qualified immunity "because at the time you didn't talk to the officer and provide any details in your own defense to help the officer to come to a reasonable conclusion. This is a lose/lose situation in the short-term and the long-term because if you talk you can still be arrested and run the risk of the prosecution using your words against you. And if you don't talk and you have to post bond and hire a lawyer, the municipality or state does not give you a get out of jail free card, you have to pay for a lawyer out of pocket, you never get your defense free like indigents do, and then you have to fight to get you record expunged for something that was fake in the first place. Its always lose/lose if you are innocent. Let me give some context to my reasoning. I came home from work, my wife was already three sheets to the wind. She ended up throwing a drink on me when I tried to take it from her. I told her I was leaving because when she is drunk she tends to pick a fight. I leave, she calls 911 and says I hit her and was abusive and that when they catch up with me I have my guns and that I will not go without a fight. You can imagine how this played out when stopped by the cops at gunpoint and not detained, arrested. They hit me with DV charges, DWI, because I smelled of alcohol and when I took a breathalyzer test and it read 0.00, that I must be high on something because I was so upset. They said a normal and rational person wouldn't be "such an ass". Yes, I was pissed. A separate female officer went and got a statement from my wife and that was just assumed to be correct although my wife had no marks on her or signs of distress and no visible signs of any struggle in the home. Just a lying sobbing, drunk wife. Because it was late on a Friday by this time on a Memorial Day weekend, I spent three nights and almost four days in jail until I was finally able to bond out and processed out by late that Tuesday afternoon. It took me nearly a year to fight the charges because the prosecutor wanted me to plead down to lesser charges of disorderly conduct and civil disobedience in causing obstruction of law enforcement. Basically, obstruction of justice. I wouldn't budge and finally after setting the date to go to trial, the prosecutor decided not to proceed. This left me dangling. It was an effing game. The prosecutor could come back at some point if I even had a traffic ticket in the near-term future and decide to pickup the case right where he left it and I would have to re-engage with my lawyer and defend myself once again. At least if I had gone to trial and was found innocent by a jury of my peers I would have been in a more stable situation knowing the only recourse of the prosecution was appeal which would not usually happen. And I would always be protected against double jeopardy if the prosecution tried the case and lost but by not prosecuting the case, he left the option open for getting something. In the end, I paid my attorney a total of over six thousand dollars. There was no one to recoup this money from, it was a tax for being innocent. My weapons were seized, and I had a process to get them returned again because I was never tried and able to prove my innocence in a court of law. And after two years from the date of the arrest I can petition the state to get my good name cleared and my record expunged, but my record may never be fully eradicated so I have been told. There is still the potential that my arrest may still come up in border crossing checks in North America and in background checks for employment and clearances. I have been told by an FBI agent that there will always be a trail left in databases somewhere within the local, state, and federal governments about this arrest. There are always Police logs, newspaper prints or internet results of inmate logs that get archived on sites like the way back machine, etc. The innocent are never made whole and can never again be made whole, and although talking may get you into an arrest or not, a lawyer will only do the amount required to keep you from going to prison. But your life will never be the same... You will never be the same or whole again, and no lawyer or amount of money can ever prove otherwise. And always in the end, there is still public opinion. You are not innocent until proven guilty, you are at the mercy of law enforcement whims and adrenaline rush and in the end have no recourse to be made whole, you often will not even be lucky to get an apology.
Brother I feel your pain, mine was much worse. I paid 40,000 for false, fabricated and malicious charges that ended up being dismissed after 5 years. Im in the process now of trying to get it expunged in which the DA is fighting it even though the dismissed it. More money for the expungement and if denied I have to pay for the appeal. They are SOB's and don't care if your innocent or not. They can care less what the truth is, all they care about is their careers. There is a special place for those type of ppl when they leave this life, and I believe they will pay a hefty price for the pain and suffering they knowingly commit. As far as your life never being the same.....yep your right, I lost friends, family and had my name drug through the mud over 1 persons made up absolute lies with not 1 shred of evidence.
this is what makes criminals out of honest citizens.If this person was a criminal like the nazi cops in this story he would not think wrong in doing what is done onto him.organized crime figures have gone after prosecutors,cops,judges for less than this and the justice system wants more criminals not less so they make up cases with innocent civilians.don't know if this person is guilty or innocent will probably never know because the higher ups want to bury him.hope he'll get his day in court.
I was lucky, my ex-wife called the police and because she wanted me out of the house for the night, she told them that I had shoved her. Fortunately, they came into a house with nothing broken, nobody screaming or crying, and the alleged domestic abuser in bed trying to take a nap before going to my next job to support her. They realized pretty quickly that it was bullshit, and pressured her to admit that it was merely a verbal confrontation, not a physical altercation, otherwise I would have been arrested for…taking a nap, and my name would never have been cleared.
I'm from a state where the breath test is not a choice; accepting a driver's license is implied consent to chemical tests. They still lie about the field sobriety test: "I need to see if you're okay to drive and then we'll have you on your way." I learned about cops lying when I was 19 and I was told a cop had an eyewitness to something I hadn't done. The guy he described arrived after the event he was trying to pin on me, too.
Is that Colorado? I've been following a story of a gentleman who was a pilot and general contractor who was pulled over TWICE and arrested TWICE for DUI, despite blowing a 0.0 both times. The first time, the officer pulled him over because he allegedly didn't signal a lane change. Whether or not that happened isn't known because that department doesn't use dash cams. The officer said he smelled the overwhelming odor of alcohol. That became the justification to turn it into a DUI stop. The man initially refused to do a breath test but police told him he had to because of implied consent. When police spoke of the implied consent law, I honestly wondered if they were lying about it or if it was real. Since police can lie, can we use it as justification if we refuse to do something because we believe police are lying? Anyway, he blew a 0.0. Obviously he wasn't drunk. Then the officer says "Well you must be on SOMETHING" so they took him to jail anyway. So the odor of alcohol was used as the basis for the DUI accusation, but he wasn't under the influence so...... how was the cop legally allowed to twist nothing into something by claiming the man was suddenly on some sort of other drug? THEN, at the station, the police said they needed to draw blood to test for other substances. They handed him a form and said he had to sign it. He said he wanted to read it but the police didn't want him to read it. They tried to force him to sign it without reading it, and the police almost used that as resisting. The man was recently awarded $400,000 for the FIRST stop. The case for the second stop is still pending. It's fucking unbelievable.
I live in Louisiana, it's also implied consent, I once was asked to take a breathalyzer and I refused, they took my license and arrested me. I went to court and I was acquitted. If no crime was ever committed they cannot keep your license, at first they refused to give me my license back and I sued the state, they showed up to court once in the lawsuit, and then sent me an email saying I can go to the dmv to get another license. You cannot penalize an innocent person.
@@jeffreyhowll1392 Henry Hill, who was a thief and not an Oxford-educated author, noticed that an awful lot of the men involved with the Lufthansa heist had been killed over the next two years. Who do you think is a better source on thieves' honor?
The only words out of your mouth should be "I don't answer questions" "I don't consent" and "I want a Lawyer" Even if you're guilty as sin and caught red handed in the process of the crime. Even better is to say "I invoke my 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th amendment rights" and clam up till they figure out what they are. 9 times outa 10 they won't even the 4th and 6th. So just stand there looking at them till they figure it out. I've had police try that "look your buddy there already ratted you out" thing on me. I told them "Yeah? well that sucks, where's my Lawyer?" Once you ask for a Lawyer, all of their questions, by law, have to stop till one is present for you. Granted they'll take you in and you'll have to wait for him to show up but you'll be going home that night/day. Plain and simple NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE, NEVER OPEN YOUR DOOR TO THE POLICE, and if they do show up at your house, demand to see the Warrant. Without a Warrant they have no right to be on your property. I've actually, and I don't suggest this unless you know your rights to the extent, opened my door holding my pistol I was told to put it down and yelled at, I told them "THIS IS MY DIRT! I didn't call you, get the F&*k off my dirt! Here I am King and all Lord Holy, you don't tell me sh!t, take your a$$ back to PUBLIC PROPERTY where you can act like you have authority BUT you will NOT do it here on MY PROPERTY" Again never do this, I was just sick of them acting they were gods
@@garrettcronin4333 Probably not helpful to invoke two-term limits on Presidential elections. And invoking both Prohibition and repeal of Prohibition at the same time seems unnecessarily complicated.
the statement " whatever you say can and will be used against you" should also end with "and nothing you say will be used to help you" because when in court, your statements that can be used to help you are "hear-say" and inadmissible.
Friend of mine was over my house doing home repair work for me, he had a small business. He had been over my house for 2 days, his wife didn't know my address since I wasn't in the same town. She was angry at her husband and called the police on him told them that he had hit her. She gave them his phone number and that was lie number two. Just come on down we want to talk to you. This was a Friday afternoon, I laughed when he said what do you mean you want me to come down you just want to talk to me? I said don't you dare go down there tonight they will lock you up and keep you there until when's municipal court? And the cop said Tuesday morning. I said that means they'll lock you up and keep you there until Tuesday morning cuz you ain't going to have any access and I'm going to be at work and I won't be able to bail you out. And then whatever money you spend on bail, the judge will try to keep it. Stay here until Tuesday, tell the cop will show up for court I'm your witness. Cop tried some other b******* and Eddie said I'll see you Tuesday morning bye click and that is exactly what happened we showed up in court on Tuesday morning I had photographs of everything that he had done in my house and I had backed him up. He walked. Kathy looked like an idiot, and the cops didn't believe her anymore.
Whenever they tell me they want to hear my side of the story, I just tell them that the BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON THEM! I don't have to prove my innocense, THEY HAVE TO PROVE MY GUILT!
It should be said that even in a consensual encounter with the police, cops immediately launch into the Reid Technique of interrogation. So, research the Reid Technique, research logical fallacies in debate, learn to recognize "gaslighting" in conversation, and also research common body-language indicators, before you even open your mouth to a cop. Either that, or invoke your 5th and ask for a lawyer
I was just reading about the Reid Technique of interrogation and there's no way that'd ever work on me. They play their games and I play mine. When it comes to confrontations I have a pretty good game myself too. In the clutches somehow I always manage to say just the right thing. It ends everything in one fell swoop. Once a cop got on my case for running a stop sign in a parking lot so I said to him, Is there an ordinance for that sign? He just turned around, got in his car and left. Everyone in the car with me was impressed. You see for a street sign to have any legal weight it needs a town ordinance. You can see the numbers on the signs themselves. Without that ordinance the sign is merely a decoration. Once I said that the cop knew he was beat.
@@1pcfred That stop sign thing is a great example... That cop was counting on you not knowing the difference between a commercial parking lot and a public street. So, basically, the cop was trying to run a con on you for a fishing expedition. And that's all the Reid technique is: a con. And once you know the con...
@@timothywilliams2252 the way I see it is that Wyatt Earp thought he was at the OK Coral again. So he just started blasting and all he was shooting were blanks. I don't think he realized where he was for a moment. What I said just brought him back down to earth. Because I could see it in his face when self awareness set in. Then he must have thought, What am I doing? He got out of there real fast then. I'd have appreciated an I'm sorry but really getting out of my hair was enough.
7:17 A lie I've seen that is real similar to this is when they tell you, "You're buddy said that the drugs are all yours," or, "Your buddy said that everything was your idea and you're the one who did everything." Then the cops follow that up with, "Since you won't talk, we'll just go with his side and charge you with everything." That's designed to scare the crap out of you AND challenge your sense of justice, "They're letting him go scot-free and I'm getting hit with everything?!?!" It's all just a technique to get you talking, don't bite. If you think you're going to tip the scales in your favor by giving your story, you're not. Every word out of you're pie-hole helps them build a case against you.
Truth. One time (for me) in the interview the detective told me the man sitting next to him was a lawyer trying to make me think I had legal protection. As I discovered much later, it was another detective.
Thank you so much for this valuable information. I'm an oldie who has never been in trouble with the law, but I have kids and grands, and I never know what they'll do.
When I was a cop, we were NOT allowed to tell a suspect we were "off the record". Also, we would usually let a prosecutor know if the person cooperated. It doesn't really make that much difference anyway. Definitely don't take a polygraph. And, depending on your states laws, don't take a roadside field sobriety test or roadside breath test.
Right you are. Retired criminal justice professional - have preached these same things to all five of our children. You can’t tell the honest LEOs from the dishonest ones so just assume you are dealing with an evil one. Be polite, provide the necessary documentation when asked, do not engage in any unofficial or unnecessary conversation, and shut up.
Louder for the boot-lickers at the back who say, "if you haven't done anything wrong then there's nothing to worry about. Only guilty people don't talk to police." They're out there and they need to hear it.
It should be illegal for cops to lie and should be considered entrapment, at a minimum. I’ve been lied to many times by pigs. “One of your license plate bulbs is out.” I said “I don’t think so, could you show me?” The reply, “have a good night.” as he realized I wasn’t falling for his BS
In my town. That's the line the cops use to pull the victim over. And ask for license and registration. So I asked. Tank you officer. I will get it replaced as soon as possible. As you can see the parts store are closed. Plus I didn't know I need a license and registration for replacement of burnt out bulbs.
I wish I could say I don't understand why so many people admit to things when they don't have to, but those situations are scary because you feel powerless. It's an uneasy uncomfortable situation to be in. I've been in situations at home, work, and school where I've been accused of things I didn't do, and nobody believed me. When police tell you that they have evidence against you, that "well they don't believe me so I guess I have no choice but to admit it as if I did." Plus, TV shows like Law and Order don't help because they frequently say things like "we don't have any evidence so we can't hold the suspect", but it NEVER works like that in real life. They interrogate you for hours upon hours and don't let you leave until they get what they want out of you. No lawyer ever comes in after a couple minutes to save the day.
People need to swallow their pride and set their egos aside and ask for an attorney. No matter how smart you think you are, you are not going to outmaneuver a trained interrogator!
I had a cop actually talk to the judge once, BUT it was a small town, I was 18 and would have lost my job if I got a speeding ticket. The officer talked to my boss, then talked to the judge to keep it off my record. Still had to pay the fine, but I'm glad it was him and not the cop who hated 'rich kids'. Apparently my dad being a flight surgeon in the army somehow made us rich.... OTOH - I don't trust cops anyway. my favorite line is always 'You don't look like a lawyer." "Oh? You don't look like a fucking moron, but here we are."
I was being tailgated by a felon one night so I pulled over to find out what his issue was, he drove off. I continued on my way, he'd turned around and then when he passed me he pulled a U turn. So I drive into a parking lot directly under a lightpost and waited. He arrived and I inquired as to his wellbeing. He then told me I was "all over the road" and had slurred speech. I got him to admit that "all over the road" meant "you were downtown, now you're on the same road, but uptown" and that I was indeed sober. I asked him which substances he'd used that night as I know the cops in that department, and he lost his shit. That's what turned him into a felon. On camera, too. Now I have mutliple 4k cams so the next incident is in UHD (he's not the first cop to be a felon after harassing me).
2 Detectives tried to question me on the side of the road after stopping me but they gave up soon. . . right after I explained to them my frame of mind towards cops. I told them my neighbor, a retired lawyer, once told me that if I am ever questioned by a cop/detective to look him straight in the eye and picture HIS FACE as the man that screwed my wife while I was away working in the oil fields, Picture that man as the neighbor that jumped over the fence and kicked my little son's dog to death for barking, Picture that detective as the guy that raped my sister back in high school, and keep saying any one of those sentences in your mind, over and over again ... and then he said, he promises's me that I will never give even the time of day to that cop ... the cops walked away.
Officer am I being detained, yes you are, therefore I have just Mirandized myself and I invoke the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments to the US constitution, and I will not be answering any questions. If you see them milling around your property, do not engage them. If arrested, do not resist, state that I am not resisting arrest either verbally or physically. Remember they can lie to you and use inculpatory evidence gather from those lies against you and chances are that the evidence will not be thrown out at a suppression hearing.
One time when I was a child a cop dropped his kid off at church. I talked to him and invited him to church but he said that he is going to Hell for all the things he did. He said that a lot of innocent people were in prison because of his lies and tricks. He said that he was trying to save his son from the same fate. His child was the spawn of Satan. That kid made me look like an angel.
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I had police officers use all these lies when I was falsely accused of crimes by my ex I didn’t know any of this when it happened but I just demanded to talk to a lawyer. I got arrested and charged with everything but in the end I had all charges dropped and the police officer got arrested and went to jail lost his job and retirement because I forced the prosecutor to press charges against him because she admitted to doing to me what he claimed I did and he withheld evidence. That is why you never talk.
"I am more then willing to answer any and all law-enforcement questions but NOT without legal-representation, that if I can NOT afford, the courts will afford for me" Basically mirandizing oneself. Remember: Police are NOT lawyers and they're are NOT your lawyer.
I think you're probably better off not saying that, and just sticking with "I don't want to answer any questions". Admitting that you're already aware of your Miranda rights takes a potential defense away should you not be read your rights when arrested and end up accidentally saying something that gets used against you in court.
@@stevepreskitt283 What? How? How would knowing your rights "Take away" a "Potential" defense? Your Miranda exist whether they are read or not, and them being read to you at the time of arrest is only for the protection of the officer. Saying "You don't want to answer any questions" shows contempt and a willingness too hinder. Your best bet is to remain Absolutely quiet and let a lawyer do the talking for you.
@@stevepreskitt283 Furthermore: People need to stop thinking that, the perceived violation of ones rights will automatically dismiss any and all charges against the accused. The ultimate judicial rule is done by a Judge and depending on circumstance , is up to them to decide the relevance of evidence before the court. One can't be caught with a bunch off dead babies they're snacking on and yell out "I did it" and expect to get off by way of "Technicality" because the police didn't have time to read the Miranda rights.
Remember Columbo. It was always the questions he needed answers to. The culprits always outed themselves. Of course, it was fiction, but a reminder of what not to do.
Police officers should be under oath at ALL times while on duty. AND... As law enforcement, they should be required to obey the law, NOT be above the law in the name of "doing their job."
The late George Gordon stressed that for a huge, HUGE percent of people who are convicted, it happens because of something that came out of their own lips, so when confronted by the police you need to "be quiet, keep your mouth shut, and shut up!" There is not even one single word that can help you one bit. Imagine how even answering yes or no if a cop remarks that it's a beautiful, sunny day might be used to get you twenty more years in the penitentiary...and the police totally do not care if you are innocent or not; they want to arrest, get you charged and convicted. (George Gordon ran Barristers Inn of Common Law, back in the 1980's.)
Basically, when anybody, anybody! Places you in an uncomfortable situation you do not want to be in, mandatory or not, that person is NOT YOUR FRIEND. Remain silent, and wait for an attorney.
My dad was a Houston police officer for over 20 years. He said this to me when I was a young boy. Policemen are legally allowed to lie to you. You do not answer questions, no matter what they tell you. You do not open the door to your home. You talk thru the door locked and deadbolted. If you have been arrested, you remain silent. You do not talk to anybody while handcuffed. Not even other prisoners! You have the constitutional rights to remain silent. You are not legally required to sign any documents! You talk only to your lawyer. You do not talk on any phone while being arrested. They listen to all your phone calls. If pulled over in your vehicle, you do not give a police officer the right to search your car! My dad said the justice system has been corrupted to benefit certain people of power. And these same people abuse their power and get away with it everyday! He said look at all our politicians they are lawyers, not true men of integrity or honesty! Just good liars!
Great post, thanks
The other prisoners are the highlight of your post those who don’t talk or they ain’t got what they want out of they’ll use a jail snitch not even the criminal gangs they’re in know they’re snitches or an undercover who asks you a lot of questions like what are they gonna do to me I got caught for this or that how long do you think they’ll give me hoping you’ll ask questions and say things to them about yourself never do that
Absolutely true. My father was a state trooper and said those nearly exact words to me when I was a kid about to get his Driver License. Key take away: STFU and Lawyer Up ASAP!!
But your father did the same crap to many people he was just as bad
@@ScottSavre no my dad did not go along with the lieing, or any mis direction to Houston citizens. He worked in vice, Chicano squad, narcotics, and radio patrol.
I once had a police officer show up at my house, It was late about 10:00 PM, told me that she had bad news about my parents. Turns out they had both been killed in a car accident. Asked to come in and talk to me, so under the circumstances I let her in. And I say let her in because as soon as I said she could come in, two more officers came out of the dark and bum rushed past me into the apartment. The original officer asked me if there was anyone else there, it was a small place and all the rooms were immediately accessible from the front room, as she was asking me if anyone else was there, {there wasn't and I told her so} and she asked several times in quick succession in different ways, her two compatriots that had rushed in, quickly spread out and and did a quick room by room search of the place. And then after searching the apartment stood behind me while the original officer asked several more probing questions before she went on to tell me more about the accident that had killed both my parents only hours before. I've done a lot of things in my life, but I never felt more violated in my life as those cops made me feel. Without a warrant I will NEVER let a cop in to my home again.
Wow, that is just atrocious and so disrespectful, and a deep violation of your dignity. My condolences to you for your terrible loss.
Sorry for your losses; your parents primarily, and your belief police are honest and forthright.
That's sewer scum low behavior on their part. Sorry for your loss & betrayal.
Nobody should ever have to go through that. What nerve.
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There is something badly wrong with the system when the public are being advised how to save themselves from the police!
Glad you figured it out.
Oddly enough, these 12 items have been available to the citizenry for quite some time. Your rights have been established since 1789.
Remember the Patriot Act? See something, say something? The Constitution disagrees with that. Unfortunately, too many people think law enforcement officials are to protect and serve when the Constitution states the role of the government against the general public.
Just comply and you will be safe. Your fight is in court, not with a cop on the side of the road.
Stems from the Free Masonic 1787 U.S. Constitution.
I carried a badge and a gun for 39 years. I was asked by a family member, if the police ever showed up at our house and requested to search, I told her, the first thing out of my mouth would be, "Do you have a search warrant?" She said, "You were a cop for 39 years, why wouldn't you cooperate?" I told her you never let a cop in to perform a search without a warrant. It's the principle of the matter. If I get stopped for some reason on a traffic stop and they asked to search my vehicle, same thing, I need to see a warrant. The threat of getting one quickly won't worry me. I will wait for a specified time. Traffic stops, unless there is probable cause for them to do more, then I will wait. Traffic stops have a time limit and keeping a person for too long will be a violation of your civil rights.
Good on you, hope you are/were one of the good ones sure seems like it with you making this post. I want to love and respect the police, but I admittedly fear them because of the "few bad apples" however few or many that is? I have no way of knowing I just know there's enough to blur the lines sadly.
Thank you for your service assuming you served with honor and integrity.
Remember this: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say, can and will be MISQUOTED and used against you in a court of law.
They can't misquote you directly, but they can take what you said out of context. Don't speak with the police, demand a lawyer.
@@Achill101 Oh, they CAN misquote you. It happens all the time. Just leave out a word, or a letter here and there and: "I didn't do it" becomes: "I did it." real fast. Demand a lawyer and shut the hell up.
And if you're silent can't they make up whatever lie they want? They should never be able to say "well he said this" and that makes you guilty. What you say can lead them to clues for evidence but without a sworn statement it's only their word against yours.
@@V2RocketScientist - who will be believed in court, you or a police officer?
. . . If they question you as a suspect, even if you're not arrested, demand a lawyer and shut up until you have one.
@@Achill101 that's my point. Even if you don't say anything, they can say that you did.
Just a few days after moving into an apartment I got a visit from the police looking for someone I had never heard of.
I said I had just moved in and I didn't know anything about a previous tenant.
Then the police asked if they could come in and look around, just to make sure the person they were looking for wasn't there.
I told them that wasn't going to happen. They said they would return later that day with a search warrant, so why not just let them in. I told them if they had a search warrant I would comply with it, but they were not getting in without one.
Over the next 6 years I never saw these cops again.
I had a similar experience at an Airbnb that we rented for 3 months. Initially I tried to be helpful but soon realized that they felt I was hiding the guy in the house and they started to get real assertive. This was unbelievable given the circumstances. Finally they threatened to get an arrest warrant if I didn't produce my ID. (The were looking for a registered sex offender & I had no desire to be linked to someone like that) I told them to get off the property until they had the warrant & filed a complaint on them the next day. What little respect I held for the police died that day. Everyone is guilty in their eyes so being innocent doesn't make you safe from their actions.
They're still working on that warrant. The wheels of justice grind slowly. So, any day now...
Don't answer the door and entirely avoid this kind of thing.
@@warrenwinston9803 They had to make sure the sex offender wasn't in there. Better safe than sorry.
I had a very similar event. Had just moved into the place a few days prior, it was a Saturday night and I'm just siting there jamming on guitar and there was that hard knock that either meant police, or you were about get into an altercation. Well I knew that a drug dealer had lived there a few months prior, so I grabbed my handgun and answered the door, kind of exposing the left side of my body while keeping the gun behind the door. Well there stands two cops. Oh shit.... I thought. Same thing as you, they wanted to come in and see if that dude was there. The lead cop tried to do the invade my space thing to get me to move out of the doorway. I braced the door against my chest and put my left hand out, without touching him mind you, and authoritatively told them they were not coming in my house without a warrant. Honestly I wasn't the "keep the police within the bounds of their authority" type back then, I didn't have any weed in the house, and I probably would have let them come in. But there was that damn gun still in my right hand, literally 20 inches from the lead cop. Of course It was pointed down, but I couldn't do anything but keep holding it, and I was praying this cop didn't try to get physical. They of course threatened a warrant, and I of course called their bluff because what other choice did I have at this point? Thankfully they gave it up and left. Might have had something to do with the almost zero temps I had been forcing them to stand in for the last 15/20 minutes lol.
40 years ago, I was told, by a new assistant prosecutor that there's no such thing as truth. Only, who has the better argument. I was shocked, back then. Not anymore.
The prosecutor was a fool. The "proper verdict" does not depend on which side of the courtroom you are sitting on.
The American judicial system is based on how well off you are financially. Uncountable times a person WHO IS GUILTY gets off because of a slick weasely lawyer and innocent people have gone to prison because they didn’t know their rights, weren’t smart enough to keep their mouths shut and were stuck with a court appointed attorney. Cops are not your friends, stop thinking they are.
I once told a group of kids that keyed my truck "never mess with a person that has more money than you do". They all got community time and I never got a dime to fix my truck. At least the suffered some.
@@tmo4330 No he/she is a lawyer. Like the police they are not required to tell the truth & nothing but the truth. They are paid to argue about what is the truth.
@@warrenpuckett4203 And..............Truth is not determined by popular vote. Example: O.J's lawyer was not paid to find the truth, he was paid to keep the truth from being found out. "Argue about what is the truth" as you put it. Do we need professional trained jurors to make the proper verdicts today?
I had a detective tell me in an interrogation room that he found my fingerprints at the scene of a crime. It was a bold statement considering my prints had never been taken before. I was tempted to tell him I was wearing gloves at the time, but decided against it.
The room had one very tiny mirrored window. He pointed at the window and explained there was a witness, and I was just in a lineup where that person identified me. Hmm, a lineup of just me? Yeah, they never did charge me with anything.
Yeah I'm glad you didn't use the "I was wearing gloves" comment because they would've taken that as an admission, even if it was sarcasm. It reminds me of a Judge Judy episode where a woman claimed two kids stole her purse. Judge Judy asked what the contents of the purse were and she was going over it and one of the guys corrected her and said one of the things she listed wasn't in it. Judge Judy laughed at immediately ruled in favor of he woman.
I got called to the office (I was in high school) and taken by these to detectives to the station and left alone in an interrogation-room for about 45 minutes. At the end, one of them opens at the door and asks me if I had anything to say? I immediately responded with, “Yeah. What did I do?” Without a word they drove me back to school. I was friends with one of the detective’s sons. His son told me his dad could be a real a**hole. 😮
so they were your fingerprints?
@@tomm1583 No. According to his "cool story, bro" he didn't leave fingerprints, because he wore gloves and they couldn't have matched them with his, because they have never been taken before.
"we found your fingerprints at the scene"
"that's impossible! I wore gloves when I killed him!"
Guaranteed, if a cop convinces you to let him search your property without a warrant, they already have the "evidence" in their pocket ready for planting. Don't consent to search, say nothing but "Lawyer!"
Some of em run around with pre signed warrants too..
You have no way to back up your wild assertion. In fact, police only rarely frame people. But cop-haters gonna hate....
And, when they say they are going to search you, or your vehicle state: “I do not consent to any search of my person or my property, including my vehicle. Any such search is illegal, and will be conducted over my protest.”
Really? Answer this then, why are so many folks leary of cops? @@BeefT-Sq
An Officer searching my vehicle back when I was dumb enough to allow it repeatedly tried to get me to say that “I was responsible for everything in my vehicle”. I never did, but he tried so hard that to this day I wonder if that was the line he needed to cross for his local Judge to let him get away with planting evidence.
And they wonder why there's no public trust anymore.
ALWAYS remember...when YOU lie, it's perjury. When the COPS lie, it's an investigative technique.
IANAL but it’s only perjury if you’re under oath; though you still shouldn’t lie to the police. Your best bet is to state that you aren’t going to answer questions and then hold to that statement. The officer may get upset that you aren’t answering their questions, but don’t give any statements that could later be used against you. Anything other than, “I’m going to exercise my right to remain silent.” can only hurt you.
also remember that youre free range taxcattle.
When you lie, it's actually obstruction, not perjury. Either way, you'd go to jail.
@@TheSavro😂😂wrong !! I promise if you lie to a cop during a traffic stop. You can be charged for sure.
it's not a level playing field, that's why you have to keep your mouth shut until you can get a lawyer (and even then he will likely tell you to keep your mouth shut).
So true. I was set up, and I spoke to an officer because i had nothing to hide. Yet, the detective tried to manipulate my truth with the lie from someone else. Took my cellphone because of my voluntary statement.
It cost me more to hire an attorney, but the truth prevailed. I refused to let it happen to me. Even tho I beat my case, I still feel violated. It hurts to be treated like that.
My best advice is never talk to anyone but your attorney. Dont even so much as whisper to yourself when left alone in a room. Protect your rights!!!!! They will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING to violate them.
It's a tragedy our law enforcement has little integrity
I did 8 years I'm combination of probation prison and parole based on a cop lies.
Your lucky of fortunate that you had the money for a lawyer. And or the support system.
Fk the courts
And the Government.
The cop I was involved with was 100% lier. And the Surveillance video PROVED IT.
ON THE DAY trial date was to be set.
I signed a plea.
Why.
Bc Maricopa AZ has jury's that love cops. Regardless of the situation.
It was either that of roll the dice and of I lost. 18 years.
Or 4 years probation.
I need up getting a PO that was AGAIN. ANOTHER LIER.
SO..
I said fknit.
And rejected my probation.
Went to sentencing.
Got my sentence stacked.
Mother fkn judge.
Then did 3 and 2
Did 3 year inside.
With 9 months Parole.
Parole was easier than probation.
All this said.
The fkn cops lied..and even the Public Pretender was a shit head. Wanted me to sign.
I was like NO.
IM NOT GU.GUILTY
fired her and got a Pro Bono lawyer.
He was great
We almost went to trial.
But bc Maricopa AZ are COP LOVERS.
I was roped into a plea.
So yeah.
Fk off a you fkn pigs fks.
PsOS.
Liers .all.
I was accused of rpe/attempted murder by a cop. He told all these lies. I was dropped as a suspect when the guy went back to kill the woman. I have no doubt that crooked Columbus, OH cop would have found a way to frame me had the criminal not gone back to kill his victim to silence her. Being innocent means nothing to cops. Closing the case is all they care about. I'm glad you were cleared.
@@-BUFFALOManSadly many police care more about their conviction rate then actually arresting the right person. The best protection from the bad apples is to not talk to police without your lawyer. And of course follow the advice in this video.
@@-BUFFALOMan I'm not saying don't say hi in a coffee shop ect. I mean I any situation you could be a suspect in a crime.
I was a policeman and a federal agent for 20 years. I became angry with, and eventually left, with honor, my organization because of their emphasis on RIC (Recoveries, Indictments, and Convictions). My main complaint was, where's the "O"? That is, what happened to OBJECTIVITY? Isn't our mission to find the truth, whether it acquits the accused or not, rather than to just put people in prison? I certainly did put some people in prison who really needed to be there. They deserved it and they know it. But in some of my investigations, I ended up proving that the accused DID NOT commit any crime. Was I rewarded for that? For keeping a person out of prison? NO. Not even a mention in my performance report. Don't fall for anything the police say. Take it from a retired federal agent. The police are NOT your friends. And you don't have to say anything to the police no matter what they tell you. Just tell them "I want a lawyer."
Appreciate your contribution. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
There is such a thing as "off the record" when dealing with police. It occurs when they break the rules. 🤔
e.g. turning off body cameras
@@ianjohns9398 Amongst many others. 🙂
It's sad that even when cops/detectives know it's not you, they will still push for a conviction. They don't care that you didn't do it; they only care that they get you to admit it so that they move closer to ranking up within the brotherhood.
“I invoke and refuse to waive my Fourth Amendment right to be free of any unlawful search or seizure.”
“I invoke and refuse to waive my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.”
“I invoke and refuse to waive my Sixth Amendment right to have an attorney of my choice present during any and all questioning.”
Then comes the tough part for us guys: actually keeping our pie-holes shut.
You temporarily invoked the 5th and then thought better of it and decided to waive it when you spoke again to invoke the 6th.
That's what the prosecutor will argue.
@@ChadBoss-qr4hl Not true, he can surely try but it will fall flat in court as once he does invoke the 6th, the interrogation ends right there. If the cops do persist, nothing said from then on can be used, it is inadmissible.
@@Mortlupo I don’t think you understand what the sixth amendment is for. It’s for guaranteeing a speedy trial and impartial jury. In the OP’s scenario she invoked her right to remain silent and then started talking again. A savvy prosecutor can argue she changed her mind. There’s also little point to invoking the 6th during arrest and interrogation as that has nothing to do with your trial.
It’s better to invoke the 5th and then shut up.
@@ChadBoss-qr4hl I most certainly do understand the 6th amendment and it's not being followed, especially by the feds, the average federal detainee has been waiting over three years in a cell for their trials.
@@Mortlupo OK, so then what does the sixth amendment have to do with being arrested and interrogated?
"I don't consent to any searches, seizures, or questions. If I am not under arrest at this time, leave me alone. Direct all further inquiries to my attorney. Are we done here?"
Every student in 9th grade should be given a course on these rights including this video.
Will never happen, the whole point of compulsory schooling is to brainwash kids into believing that they are obligated to fund the paychecks and pensions of parasties like their teachers and these blue costume wearing welfare queens.
Exactly 💯
Children younger then that are being accosted by cops. I would argue they should begin exposing children to this as young as possible. By the 9th grade this will be so ingrained in them as to be second nature.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse, unless you work in law enforcement then you have qualified immunity.
It was included in 9th grade studies until right wing America started taking over school boards. An ignorant society is easier to control. Everyone needs to study the Constitution and understand the rights they have and learn how to exercise them. Too many people believe that cops have free reign in this country.
The right to be left alone is the true meaning of "Justice".
And the true meaning of freedom.
A has-been civilian peace officer stalks me online & harasses me via various e-means. They've succeeded in a slander campaign, as well. They've lost control & their facade is being seen through, so they strike out at all threats to their false identity
People generally grow up with the mindset that they will be better off if they tell the truth. That is true, but only under the condition that your two choices are tell the truth and tell a lie. If you have a third option, which is to remain silent, THAT is ALWAYS the smartest move.
You are better off telling the truth, if and only if the people you are telling it to are interested in your well being, have good judgment, and are both sane and not crippled by misinformation.
The chance of all those things being true of someone with a professionally trained antisocial personality disorder are minimal.
@@peterrose5373I disagree. I once had a car accident...hit a guy at night I didn't see who didn't have his headlights on. I was real shook up as I was explaining the events to the Trooper. He told me he thought I was drunk. I have never even tasted alcohol in my life. It would have been better for me to be quiet and let the witnesses speak the truth while I calmed down.
@@johnsonfamilyhomeschool675 YOu say you disagree, but you basically restate my point. Your example seems to bear out my position, The officer in question did not have good judgment, was crippled by misinformation (self supplied), and probably not especially interested in your well being.
I had a cop ask me why I have such a disdain for his profession, and that was AFTER he tried to pin me for anything and couldn't. He even looked over to see if I had applied my HANDBRAKE and CUT MY WHEELS, because in Canada, you can be fined for not applying your " mechanical" brake, and for not turning your wheels in IF you are on an incline, directly after turned your car off, You can STILL be behind the wheel of the car, BUT if the engine has been turned off, you HAVE to do those 2 things ...and that is the ONLY time you can remove your seatbelt.
When the cops asked me that question ...I said " You have the ONLY job in the world where not only are you legally, lawfully allowed to LIE to me, but it is ENCOURAGED by your Superiors" ...I would NEVER take up a profession where I lie all day, every day in order to pay my mortgage. I believe that ONE of the SINS against GOD is to lie, actually it's number 10: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
He said lying helps him to get the "bad guys" off the street. I said " Why don't you just shoot them in the head as soon as you see them?" ..." oh yeah, those DAM body worn cams eh, Officer"...
Do they not have any remorse for the good guys that get swept up in their bullshit? Nope.
Was pulled over bc cop thought I was my gf (she's 110 lbs with hair to her ass n im 220 with a buzz cut) and claimed her license was suspended (found out later it wasn't). Then asked if I was always pissed off when I got pulled over.
He then proceeded to look for a reason to give me a ticket for having an attitude
Tell that to the detective who nabbed the BTK killer.
@@tmo4330 'i would rather 10 bad guys go free than see 1 innocent person infringed upon'
@@nickabel8279 Yes, it would be a tragedy for the innocent to get locked up.
A cop friend gave me some advice years ago:
Admit nothing
Deny everything
Make them prove it in court
That's wrong...don't confirm or deny anything...literally say nothing to them except 'I'm not answering any questions ".
Good on all points except 'deny everything'. Say NOTHING. Even a denial can be used against you. Operating under the assumption they have lawful reason to detain. Spout your name and date of birth before they even get their note pad out. Then start reciting your Miranda rights. Then remain silent. They couldn't even get you on failure to ID at that point.
Gross, why would you be friends with lying racist murderer?
Because that's what their Police Union tells them to do.
Watch the video over again. Remain silent including when you want to post nonsense on TH-cam comments.🤐
Don’t go in for questioning, let them get a subpoena and then you go in as required… and then you tell them first thing, “I want to speak with my lawyer”… and they can’t press you for questions… and if they do, they can cause a dismissal from illegal questioning after asking for a lawyer
Caveat: once you ask for that lawyer and say you're not going to talk then shut up and don't talk. Don't talk about the weather don't talk about your clothes don't even ask for a soda because once you start talking then you've started the clock all over again
My wife loves to watch investigative discovery type shows and every single time I say when they call you up and say hey will you come down and talk to us do not go down there and sit in the little room. Whether you know you're innocent or not really doesn't matter do not go down and sit in the little room
@@johnmyles65 I personally would say "sure" and then not go if they called.
Wrong! Give the subpoena to your lawyer and let him schedule a time, so he can be there with you before any questioning takes place! After each question, pause, look at your lawyer and wait for his nod (okay) before answering any question. He will advise on how to answer any questions that may need to be answered or object to any question that is not.
I've had police officers lie in their statements for a court proceeding I was involved in. When I brought it up to my lawyer, he told me not mention it in court or to anyone involved in the case. It was truly a bold faced lie and now, thanks to your video, I understand their motives.
They’ll even lie just to get a conviction. Especially in traffic court. Your guilty no matter what the facts are. With traffic court it’s all about the money and not about guilt, innocence, or justice …
Man, you spoke a mouthful 1000% true. My attorney just turned and looked at me and said "...i don't know what just happened in there, but I can help you legally file bankruptcy on this judgement if you want a way out."
Demonic, a courtroom full of liars on the stand and I was the only one that spoke the chronological truth, and even at that they cut me off from testimony about 80% of the way through.
Demons or Judges don't like to hear the truth about themselves and of who did what.
I threw their whopping mud-slinging right back at them four months later, all of them. Two years later the guy who hit me died. He was about the wealthiest machine shop in the entire Valley.......... Liars, bearing false witness. "......i had my head down at that time, I didn't see anything."
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive "
When we lie we are in serious danger of losing the ability to discern the difference between truth and deception. This happens to cops too, they think they remember what part of their interrogation was truth and lie, but they too get tripped up by their own lies and then they lose the ability to recognise when they have an innocent person in front of them.
Many cops don’t care if you’re innocent or not, they only want a conviction of somebody, anybody, regardless of facts.
The very wise and insightful true about most liers in General!!!! Especially people who lie frequently!!! Police or anyone!!! Also when they accuse others of lying it’s because they are!!! Or whatever they accuse others of; it’s what they are doing! But yes; they mix up their lies with truth! But i think to get the bad folks police must lie many times! But they overdo it!!!! Probably
So true. Everyone is human. Bad doctors and bad lawyers because out of pride Mom and Dad insisted that they be. They may have legally passed their exams but that is it. When people are busy, stressed or hate their lives, their memory is very poor. Very, very poor and could careless about the damage that they do too you. They know it would takes eons of time and tremendous cash reserves to prove them guilty in return. Getting a civil judgement is one thing, getting it paid is another. Look at what O.J. Simpson did to the Brown and Goldman families. They still have not received a penny from him as far as i know. Cops are no different, though there are some that are true Christians and do their very best to account before God at there work.
Pure gold knowledge. Had both my kids watch this video, then quizzed them why/how to answer when stopped by police. Bless you sir for dropping this wonderful knowledge.
Great! Tell them also if able, pull their cell phone out and record " Officer, I invoke the 5th and 6th amendment from here on".
Good man (or woman)
How about telling them to obey the law? This video is for criminals.
@@johnelliott3617 No, it isn't. Something like 5% of people in prison are innocent. The founders didn't set up our legal system to catch as many criminals as possible, they set it up to avoid punishing innocent people. That's why you have the right to remain silent. So some overzealous cop, who's convinced you're guilty can't twist your words to railroad you into a conviction.
@@johnelliott3617 there are two type of criminals, those out of law and those in charge of the law; top to bottom from politicians/bankers/corporations to miltiary and police, never trust any of them especialy if you are innocent, for the police thrives doing business with the outlaw but need some scapegoats to jail so they ca keep their outlaw friends free, you are a target just for being innocent.
‘Off the record’? Thank goodness. Been wanting to get this off my back for a while. I drink milk directly from the jug, orange juice too.
You really have to keep those in seperate jugs.
@@WandererTheLost after i brush my teeth too.
It's people like you responsible for the crushing destruction of morality in our country.
Gawtdamn savage, I like the cut of your TH-cam name jib
You MONSTER!!!
You can always talk yourself into an arrest but you can rarely talk yourself out of it.
Something that needs to be stressed more is that you should always AFFIRMATIVELY and CLEARLY invoke your fifth amendment right. In Salinas v Texas 570 US 178 an individual just stayed quiet and didn't invoke his fifth amendment right. The prosecution then used his silence against him. Always invoke the right and keep quiet.
Since we all know cops can lie when talking to you, why not ask "Are you allowed to lie to me during this conversation?" If the cop says yes, then reply "Why would I want to talk to a liar?" If he says no, then reply "You have just proven that you are a liar. Why would I want to talk to a liar?"
I just tell them I don't talk to traitors.
Cop: "I can smell marijuana coming from your vehicle."
Me: "I can smell bullshit coming from your breath."
I like that one! I never smoked in my life and I only ever tasted alcohol when I Was 12 (Thanksgiving I was allowed to sip red win, white wine, and Budweiser) I never liked any of them so I never drank since. I don't see the point of it nor the desire. I like knowing what I did the light before. I am allergic to Tabaco so any type of smoking felt taboo to me. I still wait for the day that cops try this stunt on me when I go to the city because it will backfire on them so quickly, they won't know what hit them.@@secondchance6603
Why give more of a reason for them to fuck with you?
Why not be smart and be quiet?
why not be smart and not badger others on your remarks? It's just for fun dude.@@positivevibetec
The most important one imo is cops telling you they have video of you doing X. This kills me bc if you did, you wouldnt be here asking me to "tell you what happened" and you would absolutely have already arrested me.
Tell that if they want to know what happened to watch their video.
It's also a stupid lie, because if you're actually innocent, you know they're lying immediately, which means they have nothing on you, because if they'd have used that first if they did.
It also seems like talking to the cops destroy any potential plea bargains once the case gets going. If I am going to rat myself out, it will be to a prosecutor who has offered a deal and with the consent and presence of my own attorney. Giving your input to a detective seems to erase that chance and destroy any bargaining power. There is just not a good reason to skip getting an attorney before speaking.
The police are literally in no position to ever help you out beyond just letting you go. They have zero pull with the prosecutor or judge. If you want to wheel and deal there get a lawyer to do it for you.
Keep in mind a judge doesn’t have to honor the plea deal. They usually do just to keep things rolling faster in other cases.
In 1988, I was selected for a jury trial for 2 counts of murder and kidnapping. The defense attorney in cross examination of the detective had questioned why the detective told the defendant that they used an infra-red light to determine if he had fired a gun, when the detective knew that infra-red light device was not admissible as evidence. The final exchange between the defense attorney and detective has stayed with me to this day, "You deliberately lied to the defendant" , reply by the detective, "to get to the truth"
#4, they won't testify for you. 99.9% of the time I would agree.
But one time I was doing 75 in a 45. I thought the speed limit was 55. I got pulled over. He had me dead to rights. I apologized several times. I admitted I knew I was speeding, but thought I was speeding in a 55, not a 45. I told I would never knowingly do 75 in a 45. He took pity on me and wrote the ticket as 65 in a 45 and told me that if I show to court, it might get reduced more.
So I show up to court. It's a very small courtroom and rather informal (small rural city). The cop stood next to me. I pleaded guilty and told the judge the same story (thought the speed limit was 55). The judge politely listened and bent his head down to start writing notes. The cops leans over and whispers "change your plea to nolo". If you don't know, nolo is the same in a criminal court.
A few seconds later the judge is looking at me again and I ask if I can change my plea to nolo. He asks me "Are you doing this on the advice of council?". I said "I just thought it was a good idea". The judge then looks directly at the cop (I guess the judge saw him talk to me). The cop says "I was just trying to save him points on his record". The judge reduced the ticket to 9 miles over the speed limit (which is not sent to the DMV, and your insurance never finds out). I said thank you, paid my $100 fine on the spot and was outta there.
Politest cop & judge I've ever met.
That's rare......you lucked out
Something similar happened to me once too.
This just means you were lucky, not smart.
Police and detectives are trained and paid to get a confession. This is the reason why you should never talk to them alone.
I worked with a retired cop who told me, "98% of the people I spoke to, convicted themselves". He was a nice guy and would invite them to the station for coffee then begin chatting with them. He simply didn't tell them he'd studied the case thoroughly and had interviewed everyone involved except for the guy he was looking for.
He wasn't a nice guy.
@@Nick-o-timeYes he is. He got scumbags off the streets. BTK killer would still be out there murdering people had it not been for a smart detective.
Never ever ever accept an invitation to voluntarily come down to the police station house for a friendly chat. Unless it's your blood relative and it really is just a friendly visit.
Wrong! He was doing his job as dictated to him.
And there is people who actually go have coffee with the police?
Just remember if they lie its legal if you lie it's a crime.
And they’re more than willing to lie. What does that say about cops’ honor and integrity?
Depending on your particular faith, they are both crimes. They will answer for their crimes one day.
Only in court is it a crime.
@@CODY1989...........Wrong. Making false statements to law enforcement are chargeable offenses. Which is why is it best to say nothing except I plead the 5th and remain silent.
@@CODY1989...........yeah it’s called obstruction.
Always be polite but never give up a right.
I find it particularly disgusting that police can legally lie to you, but lying to them is a crime. Isn't that - in principle at least - a violation of the First Amendment?
It is not illegal to lie to a cop (FBI maybe). As a retired cop I once lied to a suspected arson by telling him I saw him starting a fire from across the field. It was a shot in the dark, but it paid off. He admitted to starting all the recent fires. I wonder how many lives I saved by using that lie.
@@yelwing Lying to a federal agent, including FBI agents, is a federal felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison. I am not sure how telling multiple lies in the same interrogation would be treated. It's possible that the government might charge each lie as a separate count, but I'm not sure whether the sentences upon conviction would run concurrently (at the same time) or consecutively (one after the other). I never practiced criminal law, but I worked in a legal clinic assisting federal inmates as a law student. I had one "client" who had originally been sentenced to more than 30 years for selling marijuana. Now, the amount of marijuana was measured in multiple tons, not ounces, but most of her sentence was because of firearm enhancements. Using or carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime was punishable by a mandatory 5 years for a first offense and an additional mandatory 20 years for a second. When she was arrested, she was charged with two counts of "using or carrying" a gun on separate occasions. That initially added 25 years to her sentence. Fortunately for her, after she was sentenced, the Supreme Court held that the standard jury instruction for those enhancements was fatally flawed, and every federal inmate sentenced under that instruction had their enhancements vacated. Getting her sentence reduced by 25 years enabled her to transfer to the minimum security prison camp where I met her.
There may be some states/cities where lying to a police officer is illegal, but I am not aware of any. But even if you can't be charged with lying to a police officer, being caught in a lie is going to hurt your credibility with the judge and/or jurors. You are much better off saying nothing EXCEPT, "I want to speak to a lawyer." You should definitely ask for a lawyer for a multitude of reasons. First, because once you ask for a lawyer, you may not be questioned without your lawyer being present. If they question you without a lawyer after you asked for one, nothing you say in response to those questions is admissible. Two very important things to keep in mind. First, you have to say explicitly that you want a lawyer. Saying something like, "Maybe I should talk to a lawyer," is not enough to invoke your right to counsel. Second, even if you have properly invoked your right to counsel, only what you say in response to questioning is inadmissible. If you say something without being questioned, that would be admissible.
The bottom line: To best protect your rights when being questioned by the police, always ask for a lawyer and don't say anything else unless and until your lawyer tells you to. To return to the subject of the video, while the police may lie to you, they may not lie to your lawyer.
@@yelwingI don't even trust that you got the right guy and didn't throw the first person you saw in a room and badger them for 17 hours until he broke down mentally and you could pin it on him.
@@Trent-m6j that is only in the movies
@@yelwing No. I'm referencing the specific case settled two days ago, of Thomas Perez Jr, who reported his father missing, and then was thrown in a room for 17 hours and badgered and kept awake and denied his psychiatric medication, while they told him they'd found his dad's body, said they had all this evidence on him, and then they threatened to euthanize his dog, brought it in to say goodbye and all, and just broke this man down until he confessed to a murder that never even fuckin happened.
His dad came back later that day. Instead of telling him his dad's alive and releasing him, they threw him in a different room for 3 more days, saying he was crazy.
He won 900,000 dollars.
3 of the 4 officers involved still have their jobs and the other retired with pension.
Imagine if his dad had actually gone missing? He'd be in prison for a murder that never happened.
1) Cops can use whatever you say BEFORE they arrest you, even if you haven't been "Mirandized". The Miranda ruling only applies to once you're placed under arrest.
2) Unless you're under arrest, don't go down to the station to "clear things up", and don't allow the police into your home. They might arrest you or bust into your home, UNLAWFULLY, anyway, but that's why you always record, Record, RECORD all encounters with law enforcement. Once you and they are engaged in conversation, and you don't have an attorney present, they can claim that you told them...WHATEVER.
3) Whether or not you take the preliminary breath test depends upon your legal OBLIGATION to do so...like, if you're already on DUI probation (a typical condition) or under 21, typically you HAVE to, else, save in a few states that require the PBT IN ADDTION to the evidential breath or blood test taken, post-arrest, which IS what you gave "implied consent" to take when you got your driver's license. Else, DON'T. And don't perform any "Field Sobriety Tests", which are NOT tests of sobriety at all, but rather, of divided attention and/or coordination. Typically, and this is bad news, the officer(s) have ALREADY decided to arrest you for DUI, and want the FSTs to substantiate probable cause for that arrest. Why GIVE it to them, freely? Yes, the cops will get "huffy", and say that they'll call it a "DUI refusal" (it's not, but they can LIE about that ALSO), or they may threaten to charge you with "obstruction" for failure to "obey" their "order" to take the FST, but that's not a legal order a cop can give.
4) As a general rule, IF the cops ALREADY "have the goods" on you, they've ALREADY arrested you and/or obtained a search warrant. And if that's they case, there's NOTHING you can say or do that will prevent that! But if you allow yourself to be tricked, then you're vulnerable to whatever shenanigans they're up to, like PLANTING EVIDENCE. Remember the defense attorney's dictum "Consent (to the police) cures ALL (FOR the police, not YOU!)".
Perhaps you would like to write a "How Too" book for criminals!
@@tmo4330 Oh that would be the "Law Enforcement Bill of Rights" found in each State.
@@YourLittleDeath I like sarcasm.
@@tmo4330 Me too. That was why I replied.
#1 : Yes. Just ask Mike Flynn.
The threshold to get a search warrant so pathetically low, that if the cops didn't get one, they have nothing on you... like, AT ALL.
That's why we really don't have search warrants.
My uncle has a great line.
"I'd like to help you, but my lawyer told me never talk to police. He's bigger than you and he scares the shit out of me".
That’s the best one yet ❤😂and I have to remember it and thank you sir or mam for making my day, you made me laugh xxxooo
Yes that is the best one yet I'm going to read that about 10 times so I'll memorize it😅
As a kid, I was accused of committing arson at a nearby building. But when the cops came to my home to arrest me my father asked when did this occur. When they said "just a few days ago," my father nearly went ballistic! Seems the real arsonists did this fire while we were on vacation in California! We lived in Colorado and we had gone there by car.
Lie number 13: You match the description of somebody we’re looking for.
Oh ... That's often lie number ONE - especially if you're black.
Why don't you just say to any cop: "I don't communicate with people who legally can lie to me."
Because you were just advised to shut up by this very video. Watch it over again.
I'm not a cop. I can legally lie to you. Your boss, your mom, your cousin, your kids, your wife, and your girlfriend can legally lie to you. Just saying, if you don't communicate with people who can legally lie to you, you are likely to be lonely.
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because it is not in your best interest to be rebellious toward an officer, but rather to be passive aggressive in using what rightfully belongs to you, YOUR LAWFUL RIGHTS. know them and understand what they mean.
Fear of what you do not know is your worst enemy, and when your enemy senses fear, He becomes a predator looking for what is weak in order to out perform you.. Why do you think all they wanted in Vietnam was body counts? To justify themselves for war and to the taxpayer. Police are no different, even the best officers have conduct rules they must obey according to law of superiority for legal and domination purposes. They have to justify their existence to the taxpayers and too the courts.
I was asked to take a breathalyzer once about 40 years ago. I was at RAF Lakenheath and had just come from the NCO club with a bunch of friends. The SPs stopped me and asked where I had been. Well, the Parking lot went from the NCO club, around the Class VI store, past the bowling alley to them. It was pretty obvious where I came from.
"In the NCO club, sir."
"Have you had anything to drink tonight?"
"Yes, sir."
"Would you step out of the car, please?"
"Certainly, sir."
He goes through spiel about giving me a breath test and how it works and so on. I agree. I blow on it real hard, and he goes, "Uh, you don't seem to be blowing it in. You need to blow in this tube and not hold your breath." So I try again. And again. This is frustrating him, so he is watching me carefully to be sure I am blowing in the tube. He asks me how much I had to drink that night.
"Three or four, sir. I think. I don't remember."
He goes to talk to the other SP, and try to figure why the machine isn't showing anything.
My three drunk friends in the car are rolling with laughter. This isn't helping with the SPs. 😄
The other SP gets another unit out from his car, comes over, and repeats the process.
I blow on the tube again and again and again.
They can't figure out why two machines don't seem to be working and keep checking how I am blowing in the tube.
Finally, the second SP asks, "How many drinks did you have tonight?"
About three or four, sir."
"And what were you drinking?"
"Coke, sir"
"Why didn't you tell us that sooner?"
"You didn't ask, sir."
The rest were unmentionable words about getting in the car and getting out of there. 😄😄😄
The correct response to "Where are you coming from?" or "...going to?" is: "Your Mom's house."
@@steveconyers4173 - The idea is to mess with them and hold them up, not get slapped around and haul off for the night.
Probably 20 or more cars of intoxicated airmen went past them to their dorms while the SPs were fooling with me. And then I went home after.
Outstanding!!! 😂
That's how innocent people end up in jail. And they'll especially lie to you if they think you are "their guy." When you could just be wearing similar clothes and have a similar hair style to the real suspect. Cops don't pay attention to fashion trends. 20 guys in the immediate area could have a similar hoodie or jacket.
Sat through a case a few days ago where the only "evidence" was the "Perp" had a canada goose jacket same as the one in the cctv footage. Not a soul cared to ask how many people in the country owned that identical jacket - not even the guys own defence lawyer. He got remanded into custody on only the fact he was wearing that type jacket when arrested - not another shred of evidence against him. I was shouting inside "Damn, Mr Laywer - ask how many identical jackets canada goose sold in that area ffs!!!" - but nobody asked, so the guy went down. Canada goose jackets are as common as muck where that guy lived - fashion item.
"We identified him from his jacket" was the entirety of the evidence - it could have been OJ Simpson wearing that jacket from the footage, it was crap, no way of making out faces. His lawyer missed that simple question & away he went in cuffs on serious firearms charges. FFS like...
The cops - naturally - spun the jacket thing like it was rock - "We found his dna on the jacket" - yeah bhoi, it was his jacket ffs - why wouldn't his dna be on it? Anyone else buy the same exact jacket?? He the only one???? Lawyers - and I generalise here but with qualified experience - well they ain't always all that. Often, they're rubbish. There isn't any guarantee they are even on your side - they may be offering you up so another of their clients walks - schnide deals, blah blah. Often, they blatantly aren't on your side. What you gonna do, Pal?
I think it is more accurate to say that they don't care/use it as convenient rather than that they don't pay attention to it. They are pretty good at their craft, the problem is that craft is dishonest.
Answering even an "innocent" question can be enough for an arrest. Cop stops you and says, "Where you comin' from?" You haven't done anything wrong so you say, "Work". Turns out the guy who robbed the liquor store drove a car similar to yours and your work is in the same neighborhood as the liquor store. You got the right car (close enough) and just admitted to being in the vicinity of the crime. There's no money in your car because your accomplice took it (says the prosecutor). You're screwed.
I've watched video's of a cop thrashing a petite black girl being arrested, thrown to the ground , cuffed, because she looked like a suspect who was6'2" long braided hair, hood, jeans, white Tenny runners. She had short hair wore a long sleeved shirt, slacks. I believe the guy they were looking for was white. That's how bad the cops are.
It's almost like they're more interested in closing a case than getting to the truth
I find it odd that the corrupt courts have made it so the only reasonable position a citizen can take is that everything the cop says is a lie. How could you *not* take this position? If there were consequences for lying however, I’d be much more likely to believe them. It’s just so crazy to me they’ve set up the system like this. It just increases animosity and emotions during police encounters. What a horrible, corrupt judge who made that decision.
It's worse, they over-charge and then hold you for months before trial so you will then plea for the lesser charge that you may have actually done. They should be barred from over-charging and plea bargaining should be outlawed so they would only charge what they can actually prove and no more multiple charges for the same act. Being able to charges people for say seven different ways for murder is wrong.
All part of the Democrat redical left control issues! Yes the justice system is all of those!
Rule number 1. NEVER EVER believe anything that comes out of the mouth of any law enforcement and keep your mouth shut.
Basically, anything a cop says is a lie.
ALWAYS have a lawyer present. and listen to your lawyer.
it's that simple.
So everything a cop says if a lie.
And they assume everything you say is a lie.
Why bother talking or listening to them?
How is it a lie? If the cops are trying to set you up they truthfully think you did it. Even if you had nothing to do with it.
My dad is a retired detective. Everything this guy said is 100% true. It's basically the advice my dad has been given me since i was a teenager.
I'd like to see this reformed, among other things such as stopping "law enforcement" from committing armed robbery. Even when they're not trying to do "forfeiture", the asymmetric scenario of "we can freely lie to you but you are penalized for lying to us" makes every encounter inherently hostile. Not always physically hostile, but a 1 way expectation of trust/honesty *by law* is an adverse relationship. As human beings, we don't tolerate this generally, even in very basic interactions like "coworker from a different department".
As the law is written, a police encounter with an innocent person is more hostile than an encounter with a random stranger, before a word is spoken or an action is taken. This is bad for the population as a whole, but it is also not great if you want to attract honest people who diligently do a real job to police forces. Nobody who is conscientious would want to be an officer right now, because of what police are expected do and get away with. Not too shocking when many officers are not conscientious then! Not only are good actors screened out, bad actors are not penalized + rewarded...
The police, when they tell you that anything you do or say will be used against you, are engaging in an act of forced honesty. We have seen that when left to their own devices, the police really aren't interested in actual justice, just numbers that need justification. The bottom line is that when the police tell you that all you do and say will be used against you, that is the total extent of their telling you the truth. The rest are fishhooks.
The law makes any person in law enforcement an enemy to the public. I agree with your sentiment of reforming this particular law among others.
I have heard it said that the largest gang of criminals in the country is the law enforcement officers.
If you consent to a search, that gives them the authority to dismantle the car or house in their search. They can cut the tires open, cut the doors open, cut the oil pan off the engine, tear out the headliner, cut open the seats, tear out all the drywall in your house, cut open all your furniture, cut open your mattresses, cut open your kitchen and bathroom cabinets, tear out your bathtubs, tear up all your carpets. And so forth.
With a search warrant, depending on how the warrant is written, they can do much the same. But maybe they don’t have enough information to justify a warrant.
Search warrants are one of the hazards that place law abiding citizens at risk. Fortunately, cops rarely go to the extreme with searches. But they can when they want.
They are in the habit of lying and can and will lie to get a warrant. "I got the information from a Confidential Informant..." who just happens to be a lying buddy in the police department.
You forgot one.. They will also tell you that your alibi didn't checkout. did have a so called witness so they didn't bother to check his air tight alibi. He plays bass in a bad and was 3 hours away at the time on time stamped video. HE demanded a lawyer . They left him in the interrogation room far another hour then told him his alibi didn't checkout. So there is number 13.
Another super common tactic is to lie to you about a more serious charge. "I clocked you doing 77 in a 55. Why were you driving so fast?" "What? I was only doing 64." Boom you just admitted to doing 64 in a 55. Even "when was the last time you had a drink?" "Yesterday." Now you just admitted to drinking then eventually driving. Now they have reasonable suspicion that you may be drunk. Blow all zeros? "Well you're obviously on something so we want a blood test." If anything shows up that could possibly impair your driving even if it's been days you can still get a DUI. Even withdrawals can be considered for a DUI for even prescriptions.
How is it that if you stay quiet, you end up in arrested, in custody for some time based on what can be considered absurd and irrational claims. And then the arresting officer is protected by qualified immunity "because at the time you didn't talk to the officer and provide any details in your own defense to help the officer to come to a reasonable conclusion. This is a lose/lose situation in the short-term and the long-term because if you talk you can still be arrested and run the risk of the prosecution using your words against you. And if you don't talk and you have to post bond and hire a lawyer, the municipality or state does not give you a get out of jail free card, you have to pay for a lawyer out of pocket, you never get your defense free like indigents do, and then you have to fight to get you record expunged for something that was fake in the first place. Its always lose/lose if you are innocent.
Let me give some context to my reasoning. I came home from work, my wife was already three sheets to the wind. She ended up throwing a drink on me when I tried to take it from her. I told her I was leaving because when she is drunk she tends to pick a fight. I leave, she calls 911 and says I hit her and was abusive and that when they catch up with me I have my guns and that I will not go without a fight. You can imagine how this played out when stopped by the cops at gunpoint and not detained, arrested. They hit me with DV charges, DWI, because I smelled of alcohol and when I took a breathalyzer test and it read 0.00, that I must be high on something because I was so upset. They said a normal and rational person wouldn't be "such an ass". Yes, I was pissed. A separate female officer went and got a statement from my wife and that was just assumed to be correct although my wife had no marks on her or signs of distress and no visible signs of any struggle in the home. Just a lying sobbing, drunk wife.
Because it was late on a Friday by this time on a Memorial Day weekend, I spent three nights and almost four days in jail until I was finally able to bond out and processed out by late that Tuesday afternoon. It took me nearly a year to fight the charges because the prosecutor wanted me to plead down to lesser charges of disorderly conduct and civil disobedience in causing obstruction of law enforcement. Basically, obstruction of justice. I wouldn't budge and finally after setting the date to go to trial, the prosecutor decided not to proceed. This left me dangling. It was an effing game. The prosecutor could come back at some point if I even had a traffic ticket in the near-term future and decide to pickup the case right where he left it and I would have to re-engage with my lawyer and defend myself once again. At least if I had gone to trial and was found innocent by a jury of my peers I would have been in a more stable situation knowing the only recourse of the prosecution was appeal which would not usually happen. And I would always be protected against double jeopardy if the prosecution tried the case and lost but by not prosecuting the case, he left the option open for getting something.
In the end, I paid my attorney a total of over six thousand dollars. There was no one to recoup this money from, it was a tax for being innocent. My weapons were seized, and I had a process to get them returned again because I was never tried and able to prove my innocence in a court of law. And after two years from the date of the arrest I can petition the state to get my good name cleared and my record expunged, but my record may never be fully eradicated so I have been told. There is still the potential that my arrest may still come up in border crossing checks in North America and in background checks for employment and clearances.
I have been told by an FBI agent that there will always be a trail left in databases somewhere within the local, state, and federal governments about this arrest. There are always Police logs, newspaper prints or internet results of inmate logs that get archived on sites like the way back machine, etc. The innocent are never made whole and can never again be made whole, and although talking may get you into an arrest or not, a lawyer will only do the amount required to keep you from going to prison. But your life will never be the same... You will never be the same or whole again, and no lawyer or amount of money can ever prove otherwise. And always in the end, there is still public opinion. You are not innocent until proven guilty, you are at the mercy of law enforcement whims and adrenaline rush and in the end have no recourse to be made whole, you often will not even be lucky to get an apology.
Brother I feel your pain, mine was much worse. I paid 40,000 for false, fabricated and malicious charges that ended up being dismissed after 5 years. Im in the process now of trying to get it expunged in which the DA is fighting it even though the dismissed it. More money for the expungement and if denied I have to pay for the appeal. They are SOB's and don't care if your innocent or not. They can care less what the truth is, all they care about is their careers. There is a special place for those type of ppl when they leave this life, and I believe they will pay a hefty price for the pain and suffering they knowingly commit. As far as your life never being the same.....yep your right, I lost friends, family and had my name drug through the mud over 1 persons made up absolute lies with not 1 shred of evidence.
this is what makes criminals out of honest citizens.If this person was a criminal like the nazi cops in this story he would not think wrong in doing what is done onto him.organized crime figures have gone after prosecutors,cops,judges for less than this and the justice system wants more criminals not less so they make up cases with innocent civilians.don't know if this person is guilty or innocent will probably never know because the higher ups want to bury him.hope he'll get his day in court.
I was lucky, my ex-wife called the police and because she wanted me out of the house for the night, she told them that I had shoved her. Fortunately, they came into a house with nothing broken, nobody screaming or crying, and the alleged domestic abuser in bed trying to take a nap before going to my next job to support her.
They realized pretty quickly that it was bullshit, and pressured her to admit that it was merely a verbal confrontation, not a physical altercation, otherwise I would have been arrested for…taking a nap, and my name would never have been cleared.
Because they can lie in the course of there duty. In court everything said by leo can be taken as a LIE, dismiss them.
My favorite Police Lies: "We got a call.." and "I clocked you at/You were speeding"
I'm from a state where the breath test is not a choice; accepting a driver's license is implied consent to chemical tests. They still lie about the field sobriety test: "I need to see if you're okay to drive and then we'll have you on your way." I learned about cops lying when I was 19 and I was told a cop had an eyewitness to something I hadn't done. The guy he described arrived after the event he was trying to pin on me, too.
Is that Colorado? I've been following a story of a gentleman who was a pilot and general contractor who was pulled over TWICE and arrested TWICE for DUI, despite blowing a 0.0 both times. The first time, the officer pulled him over because he allegedly didn't signal a lane change. Whether or not that happened isn't known because that department doesn't use dash cams. The officer said he smelled the overwhelming odor of alcohol. That became the justification to turn it into a DUI stop. The man initially refused to do a breath test but police told him he had to because of implied consent. When police spoke of the implied consent law, I honestly wondered if they were lying about it or if it was real. Since police can lie, can we use it as justification if we refuse to do something because we believe police are lying? Anyway, he blew a 0.0. Obviously he wasn't drunk. Then the officer says "Well you must be on SOMETHING" so they took him to jail anyway. So the odor of alcohol was used as the basis for the DUI accusation, but he wasn't under the influence so...... how was the cop legally allowed to twist nothing into something by claiming the man was suddenly on some sort of other drug? THEN, at the station, the police said they needed to draw blood to test for other substances. They handed him a form and said he had to sign it. He said he wanted to read it but the police didn't want him to read it. They tried to force him to sign it without reading it, and the police almost used that as resisting. The man was recently awarded $400,000 for the FIRST stop. The case for the second stop is still pending. It's fucking unbelievable.
Any test during an investigation is a choice.
@@miked172 forcing someone to give their blood sounds very unethical
Yeah here in Canada if you don't blow you get charged and the consequences if convicted are the same as impaired.
I live in Louisiana, it's also implied consent, I once was asked to take a breathalyzer and I refused, they took my license and arrested me. I went to court and I was acquitted. If no crime was ever committed they cannot keep your license, at first they refused to give me my license back and I sued the state, they showed up to court once in the lawsuit, and then sent me an email saying I can go to the dmv to get another license. You cannot penalize an innocent person.
Most people don't understand it's perfectly legal to bold face lie to you to get you to say something you shouldn't.
Great video I really enjoyed watching it. The right to remain silent is your best move, let your lawyer sort it out.
There's honor among thieves but not among police...
I can assure you, there is no honor among thieves! Who ever told you that is a fool! And to believe such , is foolishness on your part!
@@MissionaryForMexico It's a quote by T. E. Lawrence... Now, who looks foolish?
@@jeffreyhowll1392 your still foolish for believing this! Just because some famous idiot makes a statement, you believe what he says? Your the fool!
@@jeffreyhowll1392 Henry Hill, who was a thief and not an Oxford-educated author, noticed that an awful lot of the men involved with the Lufthansa heist had been killed over the next two years. Who do you think is a better source on thieves' honor?
@@mretaoin1 I would better be able to respond if your post made sense...
In my words they are all professional con men/women and should never be engaged without the presence of a lawyer.
The only words out of your mouth should be "I don't answer questions" "I don't consent" and "I want a Lawyer" Even if you're guilty as sin and caught red handed in the process of the crime. Even better is to say "I invoke my 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th amendment rights" and clam up till they figure out what they are. 9 times outa 10 they won't even the 4th and 6th. So just stand there looking at them till they figure it out.
I've had police try that "look your buddy there already ratted you out" thing on me. I told them "Yeah? well that sucks, where's my Lawyer?" Once you ask for a Lawyer, all of their questions, by law, have to stop till one is present for you. Granted they'll take you in and you'll have to wait for him to show up but you'll be going home that night/day. Plain and simple NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE, NEVER OPEN YOUR DOOR TO THE POLICE, and if they do show up at your house, demand to see the Warrant. Without a Warrant they have no right to be on your property.
I've actually, and I don't suggest this unless you know your rights to the extent, opened my door holding my pistol I was told to put it down and yelled at, I told them "THIS IS MY DIRT! I didn't call you, get the F&*k off my dirt! Here I am King and all Lord Holy, you don't tell me sh!t, take your a$$ back to PUBLIC PROPERTY where you can act like you have authority BUT you will NOT do it here on MY PROPERTY" Again never do this, I was just sick of them acting they were gods
You invoke your 1st? You want your freedom of speech? No! You want to shut up!
Freedom of the press too...To record their lies, behavior, and tactics to show your lawyer@@aebalc
@@aebalc He also invoked his 2nd.
I would invoke all 27 Amendments.
@@garrettcronin4333 Probably not helpful to invoke two-term limits on Presidential elections. And invoking both Prohibition and repeal of Prohibition at the same time seems unnecessarily complicated.
the statement " whatever you say can and will be used against you" should also end with "and nothing you say will be used to help you" because when in court, your statements that can be used to help you are "hear-say" and inadmissible.
Friend of mine was over my house doing home repair work for me, he had a small business. He had been over my house for 2 days, his wife didn't know my address since I wasn't in the same town. She was angry at her husband and called the police on him told them that he had hit her. She gave them his phone number and that was lie number two. Just come on down we want to talk to you. This was a Friday afternoon, I laughed when he said what do you mean you want me to come down you just want to talk to me? I said don't you dare go down there tonight they will lock you up and keep you there until when's municipal court? And the cop said Tuesday morning. I said that means they'll lock you up and keep you there until Tuesday morning cuz you ain't going to have any access and I'm going to be at work and I won't be able to bail you out. And then whatever money you spend on bail, the judge will try to keep it. Stay here until Tuesday, tell the cop will show up for court I'm your witness. Cop tried some other b******* and Eddie said I'll see you Tuesday morning bye click and that is exactly what happened we showed up in court on Tuesday morning I had photographs of everything that he had done in my house and I had backed him up. He walked. Kathy looked like an idiot, and the cops didn't believe her anymore.
Kathy , wasnt her name Karen??
Whenever they tell me they want to hear my side of the story, I just tell them that the BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON THEM! I don't have to prove my innocense, THEY HAVE TO PROVE MY GUILT!
It should be said that even in a consensual encounter with the police, cops immediately launch into the Reid Technique of interrogation. So, research the Reid Technique, research logical fallacies in debate, learn to recognize "gaslighting" in conversation, and also research common body-language indicators, before you even open your mouth to a cop. Either that, or invoke your 5th and ask for a lawyer
I was just reading about the Reid Technique of interrogation and there's no way that'd ever work on me. They play their games and I play mine. When it comes to confrontations I have a pretty good game myself too. In the clutches somehow I always manage to say just the right thing. It ends everything in one fell swoop. Once a cop got on my case for running a stop sign in a parking lot so I said to him, Is there an ordinance for that sign? He just turned around, got in his car and left. Everyone in the car with me was impressed. You see for a street sign to have any legal weight it needs a town ordinance. You can see the numbers on the signs themselves. Without that ordinance the sign is merely a decoration. Once I said that the cop knew he was beat.
@@1pcfred That stop sign thing is a great example... That cop was counting on you not knowing the difference between a commercial parking lot and a public street. So, basically, the cop was trying to run a con on you for a fishing expedition. And that's all the Reid technique is: a con. And once you know the con...
@@timothywilliams2252 the way I see it is that Wyatt Earp thought he was at the OK Coral again. So he just started blasting and all he was shooting were blanks. I don't think he realized where he was for a moment. What I said just brought him back down to earth. Because I could see it in his face when self awareness set in. Then he must have thought, What am I doing? He got out of there real fast then. I'd have appreciated an I'm sorry but really getting out of my hair was enough.
7:17 A lie I've seen that is real similar to this is when they tell you, "You're buddy said that the drugs are all yours," or, "Your buddy said that everything was your idea and you're the one who did everything." Then the cops follow that up with, "Since you won't talk, we'll just go with his side and charge you with everything." That's designed to scare the crap out of you AND challenge your sense of justice, "They're letting him go scot-free and I'm getting hit with everything?!?!" It's all just a technique to get you talking, don't bite. If you think you're going to tip the scales in your favor by giving your story, you're not. Every word out of you're pie-hole helps them build a case against you.
If one party doesn't show in court, they'll try to hold u responsible.
I've known quite a number of police personally and professionally. Never trust them.
dont talk to police ever. i dont care if theyre a friend of yours theyre not on your side.
Truth. One time (for me) in the interview the detective told me the man sitting next to him was a lawyer trying to make me think I had legal protection. As I discovered much later, it was another detective.
The guy might actually have been a lawyer - but that still wouldn’t have mattered because he wasn’t *your* lawyer.
Thank you so much for this valuable information. I'm an oldie who has never been in trouble with the law, but I have kids and grands, and I never know what they'll do.
You are so welcome!
When I was a cop, we were NOT allowed to tell a suspect we were "off the record". Also, we would usually let a prosecutor know if the person cooperated. It doesn't really make that much difference anyway. Definitely don't take a polygraph. And, depending on your states laws, don't take a roadside field sobriety test or roadside breath test.
Right you are. Retired criminal justice professional - have preached these same things to all five of our children. You can’t tell the honest LEOs from the dishonest ones so just assume you are dealing with an evil one. Be polite, provide the necessary documentation when asked, do not engage in any unofficial or unnecessary conversation, and shut up.
Be a mute when questioned by police
Louder for the boot-lickers at the back who say, "if you haven't done anything wrong then there's nothing to worry about. Only guilty people don't talk to police." They're out there and they need to hear it.
It should be illegal for cops to lie and should be considered entrapment, at a minimum. I’ve been lied to many times by pigs. “One of your license plate bulbs is out.” I said “I don’t think so, could you show me?” The reply, “have a good night.” as he realized I wasn’t falling for his BS
That's just it, its a corrupt system from the start. The fact that they can lie is how you can tell.
In my town. That's the line the cops use to pull the victim over. And ask for license and registration.
So I asked. Tank you officer. I will get it replaced as soon as possible. As you can see the parts store are closed. Plus I didn't know I need a license and registration for replacement of burnt out bulbs.
Lie #13 a cop will say: "Miranda Rights are only for when your under arrest."
There’s not Miranda rights; it’s a Miranda warning. It basically a primer on the bill of rights.
When I googled it, it said upon arrest.
I wish I could say I don't understand why so many people admit to things when they don't have to, but those situations are scary because you feel powerless. It's an uneasy uncomfortable situation to be in. I've been in situations at home, work, and school where I've been accused of things I didn't do, and nobody believed me. When police tell you that they have evidence against you, that "well they don't believe me so I guess I have no choice but to admit it as if I did." Plus, TV shows like Law and Order don't help because they frequently say things like "we don't have any evidence so we can't hold the suspect", but it NEVER works like that in real life. They interrogate you for hours upon hours and don't let you leave until they get what they want out of you. No lawyer ever comes in after a couple minutes to save the day.
Maybe because people have seen cops beat the shit out of people they feel intimidated and comply.
People need to swallow their pride and set their egos aside and ask for an attorney. No matter how smart you think you are, you are not going to outmaneuver a trained interrogator!
I had a cop actually talk to the judge once, BUT it was a small town, I was 18 and would have lost my job if I got a speeding ticket. The officer talked to my boss, then talked to the judge to keep it off my record. Still had to pay the fine, but I'm glad it was him and not the cop who hated 'rich kids'. Apparently my dad being a flight surgeon in the army somehow made us rich....
OTOH - I don't trust cops anyway. my favorite line is always 'You don't look like a lawyer." "Oh? You don't look like a fucking moron, but here we are."
I was being tailgated by a felon one night so I pulled over to find out what his issue was, he drove off. I continued on my way, he'd turned around and then when he passed me he pulled a U turn. So I drive into a parking lot directly under a lightpost and waited. He arrived and I inquired as to his wellbeing. He then told me I was "all over the road" and had slurred speech. I got him to admit that "all over the road" meant "you were downtown, now you're on the same road, but uptown" and that I was indeed sober. I asked him which substances he'd used that night as I know the cops in that department, and he lost his shit. That's what turned him into a felon. On camera, too. Now I have mutliple 4k cams so the next incident is in UHD (he's not the first cop to be a felon after harassing me).
Lawyer up always!!!
2 Detectives tried to question me on the side of the road after stopping me but they gave up soon. . . right after I explained to them my frame of mind towards cops.
I told them my neighbor, a retired lawyer, once told me that if I am ever questioned by a cop/detective to look him straight in the eye and picture HIS FACE as the man that screwed my wife while I was away working in the oil fields,
Picture that man as the neighbor that jumped over the fence and kicked my little son's dog to death for barking,
Picture that detective as the guy that raped my sister back in high school, and keep saying any one of those sentences in your mind, over and over again ... and then he said, he promises's me that I will never give even the time of day to that cop ... the cops walked away.
Sorry about your wife, your dog, and your sister.
it sounds like the theme to a country song...@@rticle15
@@JohnnyFlynn76 It would be, but there's no pickup truck...
Officer am I being detained, yes you are, therefore I have just Mirandized myself and I invoke the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments to the US constitution, and I will not be answering any questions. If you see them milling around your property, do not engage them. If arrested, do not resist, state that I am not resisting arrest either verbally or physically. Remember they can lie to you and use inculpatory evidence gather from those lies against you and chances are that the evidence will not be thrown out at a suppression hearing.
@@rticle15 What about your mama?
One time when I was a child a cop dropped his kid off at church. I talked to him and invited him to church but he said that he is going to Hell for all the things he did. He said that a lot of innocent people were in prison because of his lies and tricks. He said that he was trying to save his son from the same fate. His child was the spawn of Satan. That kid made me look like an angel.
These are my favorite you tube legal tips I watch! Glad to have people like y’all defending the people. The cases presented are so intriguing and thought provoking and Jeff is impeccable with delivery and professionalism. The best! Simply the best! Keep em coming. Love these cases and how you incorporate the actual rulings of the Supreme Court cases that affect these rights presented on these you tubes. . Keep them coming! I can’t watch enough of them!!
99% of cops give the rest a bad name.
well said!
Police call it "a legal lie"
Lying is a sin under GOD...no matter how they describe it.
I had police officers use all these lies when I was falsely accused of crimes by my ex I didn’t know any of this when it happened but I just demanded to talk to a lawyer. I got arrested and charged with everything but in the end I had all charges dropped and the police officer got arrested and went to jail lost his job and retirement because I forced the prosecutor to press charges against him because she admitted to doing to me what he claimed I did and he withheld evidence. That is why you never talk.
Your ex was a 1% bad person. Usually, people like do commit crimes against their ex’s
"I am more then willing to answer any and all law-enforcement questions but NOT without legal-representation, that if I can NOT afford, the courts will afford for me" Basically mirandizing oneself. Remember: Police are NOT lawyers and they're are NOT your lawyer.
I think you're probably better off not saying that, and just sticking with "I don't want to answer any questions". Admitting that you're already aware of your Miranda rights takes a potential defense away should you not be read your rights when arrested and end up accidentally saying something that gets used against you in court.
@@stevepreskitt283 What? How? How would knowing your rights "Take away" a "Potential" defense? Your Miranda exist whether they are read or not, and them being read to you at the time of arrest is only for the protection of the officer. Saying "You don't want to answer any questions" shows contempt and a willingness too hinder. Your best bet is to remain Absolutely quiet and let a lawyer do the talking for you.
@@stevepreskitt283 Furthermore: People need to stop thinking that, the perceived violation of ones rights will automatically dismiss any and all charges against the accused. The ultimate judicial rule is done by a Judge and depending on circumstance , is up to them to decide the relevance of evidence before the court. One can't be caught with a bunch off dead babies they're snacking on and yell out "I did it" and expect to get off by way of "Technicality" because the police didn't have time to read the Miranda rights.
@@Iamrightyouarewrong you can invoke the 5th Amendment at any time, you don't have to wait until you've been Mirandized.
@@stevepreskitt283 They still have to read you your rights.
Remember Columbo. It was always the questions he needed answers to. The culprits always outed themselves. Of course, it was fiction, but a reminder of what not to do.
Police officers should be under oath at ALL times while on duty. AND... As law enforcement, they should be required to obey the law, NOT be above the law in the name of "doing their job."
The late George Gordon stressed that for a huge, HUGE percent of people who are convicted, it happens because of something that came out of their own lips, so when confronted by the police you need to "be quiet, keep your mouth shut, and shut up!"
There is not even one single word that can help you one bit. Imagine how even answering yes or no if a cop remarks that it's a beautiful, sunny day might be used to get you twenty more years in the penitentiary...and the police totally do not care if you are innocent or not; they want to arrest, get you charged and convicted. (George Gordon ran Barristers Inn of Common Law, back in the 1980's.)
Basically, when anybody, anybody! Places you in an uncomfortable situation you do not want to be in, mandatory or not, that person is NOT YOUR FRIEND. Remain silent, and wait for an attorney.
This is a video every American should watch and all school children should be taught never to talk to cops..