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[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

It's not that I do illegal stuff. Most of the police in the county here i know and they know me. (My dad is a lawyer in this county) and I hear them talk. I'm just giving general advice to people who may be doing illegal things. KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT! Unless they ask for your input, or you just really have no idea why this is happening. It's better not to make the law mad.

EDIT: You can't just say "Oh yes officer, I was just asking these kids where their parents are and I asked them X question and they gave me Y answer"

I would have to disagree with your advice simply saying nothing is not a very good idea.If you make no attempt to explain yourself in a respectful manner that some what does incriminate yourself.If you know the cops are coming to you for a false reason you most certainly should say what you in fact where doing

If you really where not doing anything wrong you have the right to say so and some cops a very good at reading a persons body language so if you are being respectful and honest they usually will see it and the problem will go away.At the same time if you give them a false story they will pick up on your deception.

Maybe your dad works with the type that do get into trouble and advice for this kind of person would be different than for a law abiding person.

You most certainly should explain the exact situation as Armristed did your advice would have been for him to say nothing but refuse his ID I think following your advice his day could have been much worse.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I would have to disagree with your advice simply saying nothing is not a very good idea.If you make no attempt to explain yourself in a respectful manner that some what does incriminate yourself.If you know the cops are coming to you for a false reason you most certainly should say what you in fact where doing

If you really where not doing anything wrong you have the right to say so and some cops a very good at reading a persons body language so if you are being respectful and honest they usually will see it and the problem will go away.At the same time if you give them a false story they will pick up on your deception.

Maybe your dad works with the type that do get into trouble and advice for this kind of person would be different than for a law abiding person.

You most certainly should explain the exact situation as Armristed did your advice would have been for him to say nothing but refuse his ID I think following your advice his day could have been much worse.

I certainly wouldn't advise to say nothing, but I'm not giving my ID or name, except first name, to any police offiicer just because they ask. Most the times they will run you, then bells and whistles go off all over the USA digging up all your info. Not only that, your name usually stays in a data base as suspect with some code attached to it.....no thank you.

Yes, most cops can read body language very well, so when you stand up for your rights and start stating statues most of them don't know, they realize you're one of those American arseholes that believes and stands up for their rights and leave you alone. However, youtube is full of videos of cops breaking the rights of others with no concern.