gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months ago'Know why I pulled you over?' Fortunately, California police can't ask you that anymorewww.latimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1466arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1461arrow-down1external-link'Know why I pulled you over?' Fortunately, California police can't ask you that anymorewww.latimes.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square89fedilinkfile-text
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240205134054/https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-02/california-police-reform-traffic-stop-pretextual-racial-profiling-bias
minus-squareCold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·11 months agoYeah this was outdated. They should be informing you why they pulled you over.
minus-squaresnownyte@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down22·11 months agoSo they can hear you go “I DID NOTHING WRONG! I DON’T UNDERSTAND! I WASN’T SPEEDING!” spammed like 50 times.
minus-squareZoot@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·11 months agoIn which case, as long as the cop wasn’t lying, or making an excuse, could be easily proven. People might be more likely to trust that they were speeding if cops didn’t lie at every interaction.
minus-squareNotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months agoPart of the problem is that cops are legally allowed to lie as an “Interogation Technique” (in the USA at least).
minus-squaresnownyte@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoThat’s why you don’t fucking say anything because there’s a reason they say “you have a right to remain silent” But a lot of dumbass people don’t because they believe they can talk their way out of anything.
minus-squaresnownyte@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·11 months agoPfffft And you’re to imply that the violators don’t lie? What a joke you are.
minus-squareZoot@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoIs that not why I explicitly said “could be easily proven”? As long as I’m less of a joke than you, I’m quite content <3.
minus-squaresnownyte@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down13·11 months agoI MAY talk like THIS because doing THIS way of talking MAKES me sound IMPORTANT. Retard.
minus-squareQwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoI wasn’t speeding, relative to the sun!
Yeah this was outdated. They should be informing you why they pulled you over.
So they can hear you go “I DID NOTHING WRONG! I DON’T UNDERSTAND! I WASN’T SPEEDING!” spammed like 50 times.
In which case, as long as the cop wasn’t lying, or making an excuse, could be easily proven. People might be more likely to trust that they were speeding if cops didn’t lie at every interaction.
Part of the problem is that cops are legally allowed to lie as an “Interogation Technique” (in the USA at least).
That’s why you don’t fucking say anything because there’s a reason they say “you have a right to remain silent”
But a lot of dumbass people don’t because they believe they can talk their way out of anything.
Pfffft
And you’re to imply that the violators don’t lie? What a joke you are.
Is that not why I explicitly said “could be easily proven”? As long as I’m less of a joke than you, I’m quite content <3.
Do YOU talk and act like this?
I MAY talk like THIS because doing THIS way of talking MAKES me sound IMPORTANT.
Retard.
I wasn’t speeding, relative to the sun!
You might have been though.