Invoking Your Right to Remain Silent
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Want to remain silent when questioned by the cops? You'd better speak up and say so. If you don't, your silence could be used against you.

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  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep. You being silent can be written into the report in a way to help their case for probable cause. INAL, but have had my fair share of police encounters, and I’ve found there is not one size fits all approach, you really have to read the individual officer and game plan your approach on the spot. It’s kinda a no win situation especially when cops are trained to escalate the situation.

    • rokejulianlockhart@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s kinda a no win situation especially when cops are trained to escalate the situation.

      I’m English, so I don’t know what USA police are like much, but surely your nation is not backward as to explicitly train police officers to escalate a situation?

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It was more a turn of phrase, me being spiteful, but there’s a few factors here, imo.

        1. Is that they aren’t really trained enough. At all.

        2. It could possibly be by design

        3. Escalation = more charges or more likely to drum up charges that will stick = more likely to collect money on your possible imprisonment and or fines.

        It’s profit. The police and criminal justice system are a sham here, and yes we are quite backwards.