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Necessary link to Pr. Duane's lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc Don't talk to the police. Ever.
by GuiA 13y ago
Necessary link to Pr. Duane's lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Don't talk to the police. Ever.
- sneak 13y agoDon't pay taxes in places the cops are mostly criminals. Ever.
- taybin 13y agoThis doesn't seem like practical advice.
- mahyarm 13y agoYou can find shitty police behavior everywhere, including the EU, Germany and Canada. The probability is just different.
- EpicEng 13y agoThis will force you to become very intimate with the local prison guard population however.
- rdl 13y agoHe means "move", not "evade taxes while living there".
- elohesra 13y agoDoes he? Because I read it as the latter, and with the amount of internet bravado that surrounds any talk about the police, I'd be unsurprised if it was meant as the latter.
- rdl 13y agoI know him, and he's moved from one corrupt third-world shithole (Detroit) to an almost civilized city in a civilized country (Berlin) for this reason.
- sneak 13y agoThe police in Detroit (where I grew up) are saints compared to the cops in NYC (where I lived when I moved to Berlin). The NYPD is the largest terrorist organization in the United States. They are a blight on this nation.
- beedogs 13y agoSo, move to your own private island?
- CalRobert 13y agoThank you - this is the only practical solution. Emigration is maybe the only practical and morally viable option.
- interstitial 13y agoBut how can she call the paramedics without the police?
- 10feet 13y agoWhen you call 911, don't you get the option for Police, Fire or Ambulance? That is the way it works in Australia.
- taybin 13y agoIn my location in the US, all three come when you call.
- deletes 13y agoIsn't that kinda an over-exaggerated response, if you only need one of them?
- dx4100 13y agoMmmm tax dollars. So tasty.
- maratd 13y agoYou jest, but that's actually the reason.
- hnriot 13y agothey assume the caller ins't qualified to make the right determination. Not only is the US a police state, but also a Nanny state.
- Zancarius 13y agoI admit that this is probably the consequence of living in a less populated state, but when they ask the nature of your emergency here (NM), the dispatcher typically makes a decision of what response is needed. All three are sent for most vehicular accidents for traffic control (state police, county sheriff, or city), fire suppression (volunteer FD, usually), and medical services (sometimes volunteer, especially in the county). Judging by the comments below, I suspect there's an advantage to living in an area that doesn't have tax money to blow. ;)
- CapitalistCartr 13y agoVideo all interactions with police more serious than a traffic stop and video those if you can get away with it legally. Cameras are cheap and Internet streaming is easy.
- Buttons840 13y agoIt seems like the less serious offenses should be video tapped as well. Why not? Nothing serious is going to happen, right? Police themselves should wear cameras at all times, and that footage should be made freely available to the public.
- gknoy 13y agoI'd say that the ones where you think it might not be serious are precisely the ones you should definitely be recording: you might not treat it with the same gravity, especially when you feel that you've done nothing wrong or that the most likely outcome is a ticket or scolding.
- laura2013 13y agorecording of police is illegal in many cities - and i mean the voice recording. unless there's an app that lets u record without sound i'd say do not record.
- omegaham 13y agoSecret recording is illegal in 12 states, the ones that are two-party consent states. These states require all parties to know that they are being recorded. Openly recording the police is prohibited in two states - Illinois and Massachusetts. Every other state, you have the right to record the police, as long as you do it openly. Now, there are a few things that go along with this. You are not allowed to interfere with the investigation. So, for example, you can stand a respectful distance away and start recording. You cannot run up to the cop's face and yell "AM I BEING DETAINED?!"
- csense 13y ago