Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good? > Legal sanction against law enforcement officer misrepresentation is a more attainable control point than 100%

Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good? > Legal sanction against law enforcement officer misrepresentation is a more attainable control point than 100% awareness and compliance with "don't talk to police". The latter advice is valid, and I agree with it. The change in law, with both sanctions (against officers and departments transacting such conduct) and exclusions on all evidence and testimony resulting, would be vastly more effective. I don't think the legal sanctions would actually _do_ anything, because legal sanctions _never_ do anything. Cops still commit crimes, however you define "commit crimes", _every day_ with zero penalty. So, any argument that says "we should ask police to stop lying, and if they lie, we'll write them up!" sounds like a non-starter. On the flip side, we don't need 100% awareness of "don't talk to police", we just need awareness to trickle into the percentage of society that has encounters with police every year. Supposedly, there's 700k police officers in the USA right now.[0] Each of those probably interacts with at least 5 people a day, but there's very much a 80:20 principle in _multiple_ contacts with police in a year. So, I'd settle with 200mm people in the USA knowing this principle. That's a measly 2/3rds of the US population. A good and entertaining music video that highlighted this fact would get us half-way there in one fell swoop. [0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enforcement-officers-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enf...