Video: How to Assert Your Constitutional Rights During Police Encounters

[SID297]

This is an informative video, but is by no means a replacement for competent legal counsel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA

 

[FNsweetS3]

This video is good and bad at the same time.

LAWS vary from state to state.... as well as Case law. Unlike the general public.... Officers stay current on Case Law and Legal precedent

The problem with a video like this in an information age like we live in.... this will give people just enough information to shot themselves in the foot.

Don't use this video as the sole source of your knowledge of your constitutional rights.... study them yourselves and have an actual working knowledge of them before you attempt some of the things portrayed in this video.

Learn what the following terms are:

REASONABLE SUSPICION

PROBABLE CAUSE

TERRY STOP

STOP AND FRISK

OFFICER SAFETY PAT DOWN

INVESTIGATIVE DETENTION

FURTIVE MOVEMENT

EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCE

IMPOUND INVENTORY

The makers of that video will not be with you on the side of the road when you try to exercise the "rights" you "Know you have" and they won't be the ones getting the ticket.... or getting locked up.

Realize also that any break an officer was going to cut you goes out the window the second you start being a "Junkyard Lawyer".... expect to get the speeding ticket for full value.... not a reduced speed.

 

[SID297]

All very true, and I agree. The hints I find most helpful are the simple ones such as not fully rolling down your window, and stepping out the door of your house then closing it. This video should be taken as the starting point for your education, not the source of all knowledge. I think the narrator does a good job of getting that point across.

 

[03trubluGT]

So, this video is about helping the guilty go free????????

I'm disgusted.

 

[WTF]

So, this video is about helping the guilty go free????????

I'm disgusted.

No, this video is about flexing your rights. :rollseyes :bored:


The girl in the last scenario was pretty cute.

 

[03trubluGT]

No, this video is about flexing your rights. :rollseyes :bored:

Semantics.

I like how they basically showed scenarios of 3 guilty people, but showed how to get out of getting caught. That's the ACLU for you, a bunch of liberal pukes.

 

[phuckit]

I like how the first guy "Jeddi mind tricked" the officer:rollseyes

 

[merc lover]

Semantics.

I like how they basically showed scenarios of 3 guilty people, but showed how to get out of getting caught. That's the ACLU for you, a bunch of liberal pukes.

I also had that feeling throughout the video.

 

[03trubluGT]

All very true, and I agree. The hints I find most helpful are the simple ones such as not fully rolling down your window, and stepping out the door of your house then closing it. This video should be taken as the starting point for your education, not the source of all knowledge. I think the narrator does a good job of getting that point across.

While those two may be considered "good", if you do that, all you're doing is piquing the officers curiosity and they are going to start digging..

 

[Droptop Snake]

Interesting information, but I also disliked the fact that the situations presented were of guilty parties (1 and 3) who used their rights to escape punishment.

 

[SID297]

While those two may be considered "good", if you do that, all you're doing is piquing the officers curiosity and they are going to start digging..

As long as they "dig" within their constitutional rights they will have no problem.

Interesting information, but I also disliked the fact that the situations presented were of guilty parties (1 and 3) who used their rights to escape punishment.

Keep in mind that no matter how guilty a party may be, and that guilt is to be determined by a court of law, it is not their responsibility to aid the police in an investigation which may lead to their prosecution any more so than the law requires.

Further, Consider the lessons to be learned in the video beyond the context in which they are shown in the video. I can think of many instances where a law abiding party would not want an officer intruding into their private life. The lessons in the video would be applicable in preventing such an intrusion.