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Arrested. NYC. Turnstile ducking. No Miranda rights. Zero crim history. Mugshot. Prints. Solitary 5 hours. I recommend you listen to this if you're wonder

• mey 13y ago
  Just a quick clarification since people assume Miranda Warning is required, it is only required before interrogation. If they visually watched you duck turn style they don't have much reason to interrogate you about it and will skip Miranda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning Edit: See the section called "The six rules"
  • gizmo686 13y ago
    A bit more clarification. Miranda isn't ever required, however anything you say to them before having been read you rights cannot be used against you in court, nor can evidence acquired as a result of what you said (with exceptions for both cases).
    • kevinskii 13y ago
      A bit more clarification still: Anything you say to them while in custody cannot be used unless you have been Mirandized.
      • coldtea 13y ago
        A bit more clarification: what's to stop them from LYING that they have Mirandized you?
        • adanto6840 13y ago
          A jury of your peers...
          • coldtea 13y ago
            Who'll be able to tell how? Their word over yours? And if you're black and your "peers" are 80% middle class whites?
            • 013 13y ago
              And that's the problem. The police officers know they'll probably get away with it. Until there is a fair process things like this will not change. The hard part is figuring out what's a fair process.
              • coldtea 13y ago
                Have all policement wear google glasses and having them on during an arrest/interoggation/etc. If there's no video, the arrest is invalid. Also heavy personal fines and loss of pension for any misconduct.
      • pessimizer 13y ago
        Even more clarification: never talk to police. Give your name, ask for a lawyer. I'm sure there's a few lawyers out there who think that even giving your name is too much of a risk.
        • dllthomas 13y ago
          I think it's a problem that this is the case, but ignoring it doesn't make it not the case. So I agree: if you have the choice of talking to the cops, don't; if you have to, wait for your lawyer. But let's give some thoughts to how we can un-fuck this part of the system, yeah?
        • jjoonathan 13y ago
          But we just got done establishing that police officers have 1) The authority to imprison you on a whim and suffer no repercussions for exercising that authority in ways that judges and other police officers agree is excessive. 2) The authority to lie about what you said or didn't say and suffer no repercussions. There's a large cost associated with the "never talk to police" strategy, and it only starts to probabilistically pay off after you've gotten to the point of requiring complex court proceedings (which you might never have gotten to if you were more cooperative in the first place).
          • dllthomas 13y ago
            It's easier for them to misremember what you said (or "misremember" what you said) when you said something then when you said nothing at all. I believe that - on most police forces - even the most problematic officers are worried about telling outright lies that might be shown to be outright lies.
          • pessimizer 13y ago
            They can always lie about you. Control what you have control over. If you force them to lie, maybe you can force them to lie stupidly, and that may save you some point down the line. The point is that there is no way that talking will help you. They are trying to make a case against you.
      • dannypgh 13y ago
        This is not my understanding. If you volunteer information not in response to a question, the lack of Miranda is not important. All the more reason to not say anything.
      • whatevsbro 13y ago
        > Anything you say to them while in custody cannot be used unless you have been Mirandized. Dudes, seriously? You just read a blog post about how thuggish police officers just abuse you however the fuck they want to, with no regard to your rights or due process or anything, and you're citing some obscure, minute details of the laws that were supposed to somehow prevent those very same abuses from happening? It's like you've just seen fish swimming, but proceed to cite some obscure document that says fish cannot swim.
• fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
  Adrian Schoolcraft, a good cop. Pay attention to how he was treated.
  • greenyoda 13y ago
    A summary of Schoolcraft's ordeal can be found in the Wikipedia article about him:[1] "After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was reportedly harassed and reassigned to a desk job. After he left work early one day, a SWAT unit illegally entered his apartment, physically abducted him and forcibly admitted him to a psychiatric facility, where he was held against his will for six days." But Schoolcraft was expecting them to do something like that, and was able to make a recording of the entire incident. It seems that the NYC police have adopted the Soviet practice of using the psychiatric system as a weapon against their enemies[2] (which happened both to Schoolcraft and the author of the posted article). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_psychiatry_in_the_Sov...
    • thret 13y ago
      So The Wire basically had it right, they really do just play a numbers game? Comforting.