C-dub wrote:Of course that's all true. And they don't have to lie to us either, but it is perfectly legal if they do. However, it does make me wonder, just a little, how many crimes would actually be solved if LE couldn't lie.VoiceofReason wrote:You don't have to lie, you don't have to say anything.
Stand there while he talks and lies until his shorts droop. Give the impression you are extremely interested in everything he says. When he is done talking, tell him he does not have permission to search. Then ask him if you are under arrest or free to go.
Be sure to turn the recorder app on your phone on when you see red & blue.
I am pro LEO but some of the things a few of them do makes me mad. They are destroying the respect people have for LE.
This quote may be a taken little out of context from the original conversation it was clipped from but when LE gets the idea that it's OK to lie it's easy to see how it could affect other aspects of the criminal justice system.
The "we just know" a person is guilty mentality, the evidence doesn't fit, so we'll make it fit.