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The police here in the UK routinely bug homes and cars. When I was a suspect I just assumed my house and car were riddled with listening & video devices. I neve
by davidwritesbugs 3y ago
The police here in the UK routinely bug homes and cars. When I was a suspect I just assumed my house and car were riddled with listening & video devices. I never said anything I wouldn't want repayed in court. It worked fine.
- listenallyall 3y agoDid you actually do what you were suspected of doing? Edit: the reason I ask is not simple curiosity, but to clarify your remarks, specifically, "It worked fine," by which I assume you mean, you did not ultimately get convicted of the suspected crime. If you are an entirely innocent party, it would seem unlikely that something you could have said would incriminate yourself (plus you probably have some other exculpatory evidence). The only reason your silence in the car "worked fine" would be if you avoided making statements that would signal your guilt.
- sigilis 3y agoNice try UK undercover cop.
- dkarras 3y agonice try UK police. joking aside, it is weird to me that privacy of someone can be invaded to such a degree when you are presumed innocent. like, ok it leads to some arrests but how many thousands of attempts were about bugging innocent people's homes for nothing?
- davidwritesbugs 3y agoI think it's legit, or can be, guilty people often blab in the privacy of their home and car. If you're guilty you just have to be aware of the potential to be surveilled.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoIf you are an entirely innocent party, it would seem unlikely that something you could have said would incriminate yourself This is, uh, naive.
- listenallyall 3y agoYou are correct, I wrote these words hastily. I can't change the post at this point but I entirely agree with you and recognize parts of my initial post are not accurate.
- davidwritesbugs 3y agoIt's something lots of people think. "Hey, I'm innocent what's the harm in talking to the police?" and that can go badly wrong, an innocent response or poor phrasing of a reply or a manipulative question from a cop can look /really/ bad iin front of a jury. It's why every defence lawyer says don't talk to cops - period - not even to confirm you breath oxygen.
- listenallyall 3y ago100% agreed, and this, obviously, can have very serious consequences, which is why it was important to me to correct my earlier error.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoThe plot behind My Cousin Vinny. Two people from out of town are arrested, one thinks they are being arrested because he unthinkingly pocketed a can of tuna or something when his hands were too full to carry it all to the register and owns up to "I did it!" before knowing what he is confessing to, the other in shock repeats "I killed the clerk?" instead of rebutting it, which is taken as a confession rather than a baffled and shocked query.
- davidwritesbugs 3y agoI did what I what accused of. It "worked fine" in that the surveillance didn't yield any actionable evidence for the police - I got convicted but surveillance didn't play a part in it.
- listenallyall 3y agoWow, thanks for your candor.