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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums7 Ways Police Will Break the Law, Threaten, or Lie to You to Get What They Want
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/how-police-break-law/Because of the Fifth Amendment, no one in the US may legally be forced to testify against themselves, and because of the Fourth Amendment, no ones records or belongings may legally be searched or seized without just cause.
However, American police are trained to use methods of deception, intimidation, and manipulation to circumvent these restrictions.
In other words, cops routinely break the law in letter and in spirit in the name of enforcing the law.
Several examples of this are widely known, if not widely understood.
However, American police are trained to use methods of deception, intimidation, and manipulation to circumvent these restrictions.
In other words, cops routinely break the law in letter and in spirit in the name of enforcing the law.
Several examples of this are widely known, if not widely understood.
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7 Ways Police Will Break the Law, Threaten, or Lie to You to Get What They Want (Original Post)
KamaAina
Dec 2015
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safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)1. Smile, you are on Candid camera.
Use to be crooks worried about cameras, now it's cops.
dhill926
(16,346 posts)2. K & R...
helpful...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. The 4th amendment? How quaint.
Surely you realize that the drug war has rendered that thing null and void.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. As we all know, the only amendment that still has any meaning is the Second.
Or at least the last part of it.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)5. The Twenty First is still relevant...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)6. Indeed.