<p>There’s a video on you tube called “Don’t Talk to the Cops” by a law professor and a police officer. It illustrates how easy it is to get trapped into seemingly confessing to something even when innocent. It was suggested elsewhere on CC as required viewing for teenagers (and adults) and I highly recommend it. I can only imagine how much worse it would be in a foreign legal system.</p>
<p>Thanks, I just sent the video links to the rest of my family.</p>
<p>Yeah, watch out for those “cops”…damned authority figures… peace, bro, peace.</p>
<p>leanid–It really isn’t an “us vs them” video at all. Law enforcement has an agenda that may not match up with yours and that realization may save you (or your teenager) some unforeseen trouble. Just watch it and then give your opinion. And yeah, Peace!</p>
<p>Went through both videos. First is by a law professor. Second is by a police officer. Good stuff. Very entertaining too.</p>
<p>Good people do get caught up by the criminal justice system and there’s nothing wrong with avoiding that.</p>
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<p>You have to admit that videos and cops do not offer a great marriage. Even in theo programs that are supposed to show them under the best lights, the authorities struggle to show positive videos and often come out as rude, belligerent, and abusive. Objective reports show the authorities’ affection for entrapment and other devious activities. </p>
<p>This would be no different than trying to show the congenial and effective performance of the TSA, prison guards, or security guards. Not an easy task!</p>
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<p>I agree. Historically, we have been generally quite ignorant of ‘the rest of the world’, much to our detriment now that we have been taken down a peg or two in the eyes of our fellow nations. </p>
<p>Times change and we are no longer the conquering heroes of World War II, flower petals strewn in our path. Then we could do no wrong…and that’s how we conducted foreign policy right up until Vietnam awakened in us the fact that the rest of the world was indeed very real and could prove a formidable obstacle to our views and roughshod ways of dealing with others.</p>
<p>“Now we must think.” (as Churchill famously said when the Exchequer ran dry) Think and learn – quickly…</p>
<p>Since when is study abroad a “new” fad? But I must be a terrible parent. Sent DD to live WITH STRANGERS in Argentina for a semester abroad when she was just 16. Sent DS to live WITH STRANGERS in Mexico (yes! as in banditos) when he was that age too. DD went to Africa by herself when she was 21. Africa - that place with… you know… black people. I really harmed them, goodness, they’re not afraid of anything now. They really should have stayed home in our own back yard. Safest place on earth, America. Nothing bad ever happens to kids here.</p>
<p>True, xiggi, but with whom are they usually dealing in those instances? </p>
<p>How dull for the audience would it be to show the police doing routine work dealing with law abiding, everyday people? I cannot imagine the kind of stress and danger that the police must accept as part of their job and then mock them when in such situations they are less than civil. Of course there are bad apples, I know that.</p>
<p>“Less than civil” can mean years of prison or even a death sentence. Just ask the parents of Kelly Thomas.
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<p>“Of course there are bad apples, I know that.”</p>
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Yeah, watch out for those “cops”…damned authority figures</p>
<p>And because of the “bad apples” you shouldn’t be mocking parents who warn their kids about police interrogations.</p>
<p>Touche!</p>
<p>I am just trying to remind some people that it is not all black and white.</p>
<p>It is black and white that you do not ever allow yourself or your child to be questioned by the police without an attorney present. I don’t mean that you can’t give a statement if your house has been broken in to. If there is any possibility that you or a child could be charged or accused of anything at all, do not talk to them.</p>
<p>I think it’s important to remind kids that some rights, like invoking fifth amendment protection and freedom of speech, don’t apply in other countries.</p>
<p>Even though she is freed, she is still going to have a hard life. A great number of people, as with Casey Anthony, believe she is guilty and will continue to harass her. And it won’t look good on her job resumee that she was tried for murder but found innocent.</p>
<p>This is no OJ case. 99% of the people who followed the case think she was railroaded. She will have no problems in her hometown whatsoever. She is getting a hero’s welcome right now. It will take her months to get back to full strength of mind and body. Right now she’s a profoundly exhausted mess.</p>
<p>This is true barrons.
[West</a> Seattle Blog
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<p>Various media outlets, including the New York Times, were very rough on the Duke Lacrosse accused and there are those that think that they are guilty of something but they are the uninformed. I see no evidence that this is the case with Amanda Knox in the United States.</p>
<p>CSI is in its twelfth season; CSI Miami in its tenth season and CSI NY in its eighth season. The CSI folks in Italy royally screwed up the evidence and the CSI team, police and prosecutor are supposed to follow the evidence. Explain that they didn’t in her case and it’s easy for Americans to relate.</p>
<p>If you follow the evidence in the Duke Lacrosse case, the same thing would happen. In that case, however, there were a lot of people unwilling to follow the evidence because of their biases.</p>
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<p>There are really good but naive missionaries who take their hunting rifles illegally to a foreign country? Only in America …</p>