> ...why you should never, ever talk to cops...
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> Sad, but also true.

On the odd occassion I get to watch one of the local reality cop
shows I'm just amazed at how some people's eyes (and minds)
just glaze over, as if hypnotised by the officer's "authority", and
admit everything. And on camera too, answering questions they
didn't have to and perhaps shouldn't have been asked.

There was one particular incident in a program which got a couple
of officers press coverage. A woman had been reported driving
erratically, as if DUI. The police arrived at her house, some time
after the fact, and INSISTED (in quite a bullying way I thought),
despite her protestations, they had the right to come in and breath
test her. So they did, it was a positive result, she was prosecuted
and found guilty

The program aired the same week as a very senior officer was tried
to be tested under almost identical circumstances. Except of course
he knows the law and refused to let officers into his home. The
reason is obvious - you can get on the business end of a bottle of
spirits as soon as you walk through the door, rendering any breath
test useless and pointless. Although the senior officer dodged a
DUI, ISTR he faced a misconduct or disiplinary hearing

Not that crims should get off or avoid scrutiny, but you have to do
it properly

Joe
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