Arrest-Proof Yourself
This essential “how not to” guide explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on charges—which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. Citizens can learn how to avoid arrest both on the street and when pulled over in a vehicle and are alerted to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves. Sprinkled with absurdity and humor, this urgent, eye-opening book is a guide to criminal justice for all Americans.
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- No, they generally do the latter, and generally well.
One problem is there just aren't enough killers etc. anymore, crime rates are way down from their peaks not so many decades ago. But, somehow, where this has happened, it hasn't resulted in a reduction in the size of what I like to call the police-judicial complex. This book's underlying thesis is that too avoid unthinkable layoffs, the complex needs a steady diet of "the clueless" to keep running at it's current tempo: Arrest-Proof Yourself (https://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Dale-C-Carson/d...) I haven't read the 2nd edition I linked to, but I can't recommend the 1st highly enough in every respect, theory to practice.
- Thing is, though, when the US has been literally acting as an occupying army in the sandbox as of late, they have much more restrictive Rules of Engagement; in the ones relevant to this sort of thing, as I recall they're not that bad.
Perhaps best explained by Marine General James Mattis, "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet", one of his rules to live by for his men in Iraq.
I personally have no problems with their equipment loadout (it's too much like mine!), it's the attitudes, it's their actions, in too many localities their arrest quotas (see the very highly recommended http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Dale-C-Carson/dp...). The equipment has no agency.
- In my comment that got this going, I said: "you shouldn't do that unless you're willing to accept any result including you and yours getting killed by the police"
Getting shot, let alone killed, is a very unlikely outcome (although a lot more likely for your dogs, if you have any), but there are so many bad outcomes calling the police should still be avoided.
You might want to read Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face; I did after a cop in my fairly small home city played a game of chicken with his car and my body. Best guess, as suggested by the book, is that he was trying to generate arrest and charge statistics; the book's thesis is that with the sharp downturn in crime, what I call the police-judicial complex needs a steady diet of "the clueless" to run through the system, else there would be widespread layoffs.
Pedestrians are uncommon here, and I guess he thought I might be an easy mark, the moment he saw me he jerked his steering wheel towards me and kept the new heading. Having learned to be a pedestrian in the Boston area, the sort of thing I'm pretty sure is not true for most of the other pedestrians in the city, I could tell his car and side mirror would miss me by a foot, less for the mirror, and successfully stared him down (probably makes a difference that while not part of the official South, this bit of SW Missouri is part of the cultural south, and my mom is Cajun).
- Yes, from everything I've read, e.g. there's been some recent leaks about the NYPD, and I highly recommend this classic (or its first edition, haven't read the second): http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Dale-C-Carson/dp... (which Amazon says is the #1 best seller in "Consumer Law Business Law", which I believe).
- I'd draw people's attention, in particular, to this principle:
> Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime.
This is in contrast to the US, where a cop's career prospects largely depend on his arrest record. To see where this has led, read Arrest-Proof Yourself by Dale C. Carson.
(By the way, I don't actually live in the US, so if you want to tell me I'm an idiot and I don't know what I'm talking about I'll have no comeback.)
- "The shear magnitude of the irrational fear of drugs is dumfounding"
Who says it has anything to do with that at this point?
The police-judicial system have a good thing going, now that real violent crime rates have overall precipitously dropped. Without pulling this sort of shit, if you'll pardon the topical expression, there would have to be layoffs in many police departments and courthouses, and that wouldn't do.
(For more on this theme, about how the police-judicial system (my words of art) need a steady diet of "the clueless", read Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face (http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...)
