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> Turning off or camera or deleting the footage should be treated the same as not reading a suspect their Miranda rights. It's your view that deliberately conc
by denton-scratch 3y ago
> Turning off or camera or deleting the footage should be treated the same as not reading a suspect their Miranda rights.
It's your view that deliberately concealing evidence is no worse than not handling the administrivia of an arrest correctly?
As I recall, Miranda was introduced specifically to force police departments to tell arrestees their rights, which the law already required them to do. Miranda made it possible for courts to dismiss charges, if the suspect had been questioned without being told his rights. Trying to compel the police to obey the law just because it was the law simply failed. Th only way it could be enforced was to get several prominent prosecutions (of guilty people!) dismissed.