Uncle Joe wouldn't have housed that many prisoners; it was too expensive. He'd just have them all shot.

Hopefully we are a bit better than that.

Actually, the USSR didn't have the death penalty for a long time under Stalin. People were just sent to concentration camps to be worked to death or shot while trying to escape.

A distinction without a difference--at least to the one shot.

Gents,

Be advised that the courts have upheld the fact that during an interrogation, police may use psychological intimidation, sarcasm, lying and trickery to get information from any DETAINEE, whether they have been charged with something or not.

The same is true with the US DoD Rules of Engagement and the Geneva Convention of 1949.

So, this means the police may lie at will with no impact on the case, if it serves their ends.

You only need identify yourself by producing ID documents. That is a requirement. Anything else is voluntary.

If the cop decides to intimidate you, say nothing and look at him. If he is friendly, be friendly but limit data.

" I don't know" is an acceptable answer until your lawyer gets there. Silence and "I want my lawyer" is better.

I say this because I see too many municipalities doing things to collect money, not for public safety.

I have seen a Virginia county/municipality (?) that decided to lower the DUI blood count from 0.08 to 0.01!

Since it wasn't a "dry" county and they didn't advertise it, it didn't make the news.

Until suddenly a whole bunch of people who had half a beer got stopped at a "routine" traffic checkpoint and were charged with DUI.

They made the fatal mistake of charging some senior Administration Officials who are part of a program which requires reporting oif such things.

Needless to say, the White House called the Governor, the Governor called the county...well, you get the idea. $hit rolls downhill.

I know this to be a fact because I sat in one one of the hearings about a year ago.

This is trolling for cash, not justice. It needs to be called what it is.

Then the entire country needs to boycott this area until the the people who set this up are fired or removed from office.

If they ask you how fast you were going always say whatever the speed limit is.
If you say you don't know, they will increase the speed you were actually travelling to the next highest fine level.

one of the commentators on CourtTV recently made a statement I found interesting: "The police can lie to you in their quest for the truth".

How does that work?

I think the classic example of permissible police deception is where they put the suspects in separate rooms and tell each that the other has already ratted him out and that he better 'fess up if he knows what's good for him. That sort of lie is clearly permitted.

Also, if the investigator comes in with a tape recorder and offers to turn it off for an "off the record" comment. There is still a recording device recording all conversations in the room. A subterfuge, if not an actual lie.

Asking the alleged perpetrator to write a "letter of apology" to the victim of the crime. It becomes a confession, written by the acused, and signed... another subterfuge

A friend of a friend was accused of a crime she did not commit. the situation arose over a nasty divorce (doesn't it always?) the cops wanted to take her to the police station for an interview. she thought she had nothing to hide, so why not? She didn't ask for a lawyer nor even take a friend as a witness, after all, she's got nothing to hide, right? During the interrogation the police refused to allow her to take her medication or go to the restroom for over EIGHT HOURS. They finally let her go but only after working her butt over good......

Sounds like she should have p!ssed on the pigs' feet. On second thought, nah. They'd have enjoyed it too much.

Or shot for not working hard enough, and buried where they fell, sometimes becoming part of their task:

A bit more information and a few pictures here: Stalin's Road of Bones

I would have stood up and pissed right where I was....:)

it's a classic case of naivete; when she volunteered to go to the police headquarters to 'clear the matter up', she didn't have any idea what she was stepping into. hopefully, she now has a more clear picture of how the 'justice system' works.