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If the police are asking you questions, they're not lying to you...they're just asking questions. And if the police say something seemingly benign that causes
by gamblor956 4y ago
If the police are asking you questions, they're not lying to you...they're just asking questions.
And if the police say something seemingly benign that causes you grief, you can look forward to a large-ish settlement to make up for your troubles.
People on HN rarely interact with the police and it seems they have an unrealistic, media-driven perception of how cops actually act. For point of reference, it's the same as how non-techies assume that every tech employee can hack their way into a bank account or rig together a go-kart from spare parts.
- hprotagonist 4y agothey’re not .. not lying to you, either. Maybe! https://reischlawfirm.com/police-allowed-to-lie/ https://reischlawfirm.com/police-allowed-to-lie/
- gamblor956 4y agoThat's mostly FUD from a criminal defense firm trying to scare people into hiring them. Cops are not as bad as people think they are. Cops behaving badly (in the U.S.) is news because it is the exception and not the norm.
- hprotagonist 4y ago~30% of wrongful convictions is just rounding error, right? https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/detaillist.aspx?View=%7BFAF6EDDB-5A68-4F8F-8A52-2C61F5BF9EA7%7D&FilterField1=FC&FilterValue1=8%5FFC&FilterField2=DNA&FilterValue2=8%5FDNA https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/detailli...
- gamblor956 4y agoRead your own source. Because, by your logic, SBF being a con artist means that all programmers are con artists. 30% These convictions aren't the result of people talking to the police and then getting screwed over. The overwhelming majority of them are the result of cross-racial witness identifications. To put it bluntly: most wrongful convictions are due to racism on the part of prosecution witnesses.