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I tried to post this in the video section but was barred from doing so.

Did you know that:

* Even if you are innocent, what you say can be used to send you to prison?
* Police are not interested in getting to the truth but rather in having high conviction rates for their arrests?
* You do NOT have Miranda Rights? It is actually a Miranda Warning and the police try to manipulate you into waiving them.
* The police are allowed to lie in interviews (interrogations)?

Here is a very instructive video:

Don't Talk to Cops, Part 1

Don't Talk to Cops, Part 2

These are ACLU type views, nothing necessarily totally wrong with that, they claim to try to protect our civil rights.

Only.

They only protect certain ones.

They don't protect the civil rights of men in family court for example. Or the aftermath where men have next to no rights post-divorce. Or winding up in debtor's prison for falling behind on child support.

Amen. These are points I am constantly warning the younger folks about.

The only time speaking with a police officer can benefeit you is after a crime has already been commited against you, when it is not truly helpful as you are already missing possesions you will likely never see again, or are wounded, or dead. But bringing the person who wronged you does nothing for YOU.

Protect yourself. Stop crimes against you before they happen.

Quote from Travis A. Ramirez

Amen. These are points I am constantly warning the younger folks about.

The only time speaking with a police officer can benefeit you is after a crime has already been commited against you, when it is not truly helpful as you are already missing possesions you will likely never see again, or are wounded, or dead. But bringing the person who wronged you does nothing for YOU.

Protect yourself. Stop crimes against you before they happen.

You should amend this to note that the gender of your attacker matters. And their relationship to you. If a female attacks a man and harms him this is a crime...UNLESS the two people have an intimate relationship..in which case the victimized man is likely to be arrested and is the criminal. The REVERSE!!!

True Enough Stan.

Quote from Travis A. Ramirez

Amen. These are points I am constantly warning the younger folks about.

The only time speaking with a police officer can benefeit you is after a crime has already been commited against you, when it is not truly helpful as you are already missing possesions you will likely never see again, or are wounded, or dead. But bringing the person who wronged you does nothing for YOU.

Protect yourself. Stop crimes against you before they happen.

I don't like police, I don't trust police, and I won't depend on the police. I've had too many bad experiences with cops. They are not our protectors, it's just another job to them, and one they complain about and slack off on.

I was once beaten up pretty badly during a swarming attack. I was a bloody mess. Some people took me into their home and called the police and an ambulance. When the cops came they're trying to question, when I should've been looked at by a doctor first. They even tried to convince me not to take an ambulance. I was a bloody mess, and these guys were keeping me inside a complete stranger's house, sizing me up as if I was the threat. Fuck the police.

Thinking about it now, I wonder how I could've handled that situation better. What do you do when you're all beat up, and the cops are keeping you inside someone else's house, trying to question you before you've even been looked at by a doctor.

Anyone else got similar experiences?

Quote from MadShangi

Thinking about it now, I wonder how I could've handled that situation better. What do you do when you're all beat up, and the cops are keeping you inside someone else's house, trying to question you before you've even been looked at by a doctor. Anyone else got similar experiences?

The cops interviewed you all beat up and bloodied?

Well obviously they wanted to know if you were married or intimate with someone so that they could check with the girl to see if she needed a restraining order against you.

Quote from MadShangi

Thinking about it now, I wonder how I could've handled that situation better. What do you do when you're all beat up, and the cops are keeping you inside someone else's house, trying to question you before you've even been looked at by a doctor.

Anyone else got similar experiences?

I was attacked on a sidewalk by a couple of illegal aliens who injured me and pushed me into traffic. Over the next two hours, I talked to five cops. None of them would look into the situation. The first said he couldn't do anything as he hadn't seen it occur. The second threatened to arrest me for "making a false report", though he had made no effort to look into my claim. The third, a relative of mine, just laughed when I told him that I had been threatened with arrest for reporting the crime. I was told that I could file a complaint against the cop who threatened me, but that's like having a producer rate his own movie.

This is just one of many horrible experiences I and people close to me have had with cops. I have zero confidence in them and their commitment to "Protect and Serve", as is so hypocritically painted on their cruisers.

Quote from AKUUS

I was attacked on a sidewalk by a couple of illegal aliens who injured me and pushed me into traffic. Over the next two hours, I talked to five cops. None of them would look into the situation. The first said he couldn't do anything as he hadn't seen it occur. The second threatened to arrest me for "making a false report", though he had made no effort to look into my claim. The third, a relative of mine, just laughed when I told him that I had been threatened with arrest for reporting the crime. I was told that I could file a complaint against the cop who threatened me, but that's like having a producer rate his own movie.

This is just one of many horrible experiences I and people close to me have had with cops. I have zero confidence in them and their commitment to "Protect and Serve", as is so hypocritically painted on their cruisers.

To "Protect and Serve" is right .

I remember once, when I was eleven years old, there was a fight going on in one of the apartment complexes in my neighborhood. Apparently police were called, but it seemed like no one was coming, so I found a cop sitting inside a coffee bar just right nearby. I tried convincing him to take care of this, but his attitude was "I'm on my break." I had to go back into the coffee bar four or five times before he finally decided to get off his fat ass.

He ended up arresting and using pepper spray on an intoxicated man that was fleeing from the apartment complex. I remember how mad I felt inside, after his backup arrived, they pat this schmuck on the shoulders and tell him "good work."

When I was 14 I was brought in to Ingleside station in San Francisco for a crime I was later shown not to have commited. I admit, I was not being the most courteous prisoner ever, but that's not really something that is in me. After refusing the cops demands that I shut up, I was handcuffed to a bench in a holding cell. 3 officers walked in, deactivated the camera, and took turns beating me with nightsticks until my parents came to pick me up 3 hrs later.

Their explanation for my bruises? "He slipped on the stairs."

Quote from Travis A. Ramirez

When I was 14 I was brought in to Ingleside station in San Francisco for a crime I was later shown not to have commited. I admit, I was not being the most courteous prisoner ever, but that's not really something that is in me. After refusing the cops demands that I shut up, I was handcuffed to a bench in a holding cell. 3 officers walked in, deactivated the camera, and took turns beating me with nightsticks until my parents came to pick me up 3 hrs later.

Their explanation for my bruises? "He slipped on the stairs."

Did you tell your parents what really happened? What did they say?