Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:Kikapu wrote:Paphitis, if you are heading to the USA soon, I am posting this video again for you to watch plus, a more recent one (part 2) so that you can protect yourself against the police. This is not for because you may be guilty of something only, but more importantly, for your protection because you are innocent. Too many innocent people are thrown into jail because they chose to talk to the police but end up being wrongly arrested.
I'm really sorry Kikapu but I will be talking to police when they wish to talk to me. I think that is the common sense approach. I do not believe you will get very far for not talking to them on what is probably a very trivial matter.
99.9% of the time, when police are talking to me, it's pretty dam benign, or they are talking to me because I did some traffic misdemeanor like exceeding the speed limit by a small amount.
If you don't talk to them, you get a fine, if not more.
With a bit of cooperation, I might just get a little warning and be told to be on my way. best outcome ever.
I don't say how there is much to gain by not talking to them nicely and innocently. Only makes matters worse.
Oh but sure. if they suspect me for anything, which I highly doubt, or they want to charge me for a crime, which they won't, then I won't talk to them. I speak to a lawyer. And I know a few lawyers here in Australia that will drop everything and come out to my aid. Don't know any in the US except for my cousin in LA who is a lawyer.
The police in Australia and US are doing a job and are employed by me to protect and serve me.
Ok, have it your way.
Then let me suggest to you that you will never ever drink any alcohol with dinner at a restaurant and get stopped by the police on the way home while driving and admit to them that you had a drink (lying at this point will make matters worse) when asked if you had a drink and because you want to be talk and be truthful, then you are rolling the dice what the outcome will be, because a bad outcome with bad cops can affect your pilot’s medical certificate with the FAA, even if you thought that you were under the limit.
I can probably appreciate that.
You can't do it in Australia. I was just being a smart arse on that occasion because I knew I could get away with it and because the cop that pulled me over was an arsehole.
But when I was driving back, I was very paranoid about getting stung by 10 cop cars round the corner. I still would have passed their tests as I wasn't drunk. But it wasn't a fun drive. Kept expecting cop cars pulling out from every corner.
We were visiting a bar owned by some arsehole that owed my friend a substantial sum of money. It was more a business meeting and we had 2 drinks, and went home.
I wouldn't dare do anything like this in America. I don't have the experience or confidence to want to test my luck with US coppers. I don't think they can handle a laugh like Aussie coppers. The whole thing was staged for TV. Only thing, I was their unsuspecting random prey.
If they pull me over for a test, I will do as I'm told as I generally do here as well and which I think is by far the best approach. Really is no point doing anything else. Just follow their instructions, be as nice as possible, cooperative, humorous but not offensive. and answer their questions. Unless of course you are in deep trouble, in which case might want to not answer anything apart from name and address. The only person you should be speaking to first is quite obviously a lawyer as everything you do say can be used against you if you slip up and admit things you shouldn't be admitting to or even just playing ball with their very tricky questions.
) was the endless diet of "Trump did this Trump did that" media onslaught. After last November I thought we'd see the back of the man and an end to it all. Not so it seems. 
