My cousin who was a police officer told me one that I thought was interesting that most people would never see because it was only for a specific population. He told me that the trick they’d use to get drug addicts to talk to them was by using candy.
He said that it had to do with the fact that candy (and I think chocolate specifically) mimics some of the reward sensations in the brain that addicts get from drugs.
So if he needed information from a witness who wasn’t willing to share and he was pretty sure they were an addict, he would show them candy and make it clear they’d get it if they talked. He said it was way more effective than you’d expect and especially for people living on the street, so he’d always keep a small stash of chocolate bars.
I once speed pass a cop who was parked on the side of the road. I saw him in my mirror start to move. I quickly turn into a gas station hoping to avoid a ticket. It didn’t work. He followed me in. After running my license, he was very friendly. We talked and even joked around. He said he was letting me off with a warning. I thanked him. Then he asked why I pulled into the gas station? I said I was getting cigarettes. I believe that had I had said I was trying to avoid him them he would have arrested me for evading. I believe him being nice and personable was an act to get me to relax and be honest.
Learned this from my brother and reinforced by my lawyer.
In an interrogation… They will say “ You look/seem to be an intelligent person.”
Most people will think they need to prove them right and display they are intelligent.
By talking.
WRONG!
Say nothing AT ALL. Don’t even say thanks.
It will end up being a staring contest.
You will know you won when they put you in the pokie for a night. Thinking a night in the slammer will loosen your lips.
Or put in a cell with a well known ‘loose-lipped-ship-sinking’ informant. Thinking you may tell your cellmate something.
Even a public defender lawyer may be a plant from the DA’s office.
Wait it out…. SAYING NOTHING.
If you make a call and it’s not to YOUR lawyer?… Call a relative or friend so someone knows where you are in case you end up disappearing from being forgotten in the process.
If they don’t “ BOOK “ you before putting you in a cell? There is no proof you were ever there.
Edit:
Some may think by my post that I am against police.
I am NOT.
Police have a job to do. Be it traffic monitoring, bad guy stopper or investigator.. they have a job to preform. Most are good people…. some may be bad. No different than any other profession.
But IF they want to question you? That means they do not have the evidence to have a case.
IF… They had the evidence? They would be arresting someone… NOT questioning.
There is no law that says you have to make the policeman’s job easier.
Even if they want to question you about someone else’s activities… WHY do you need to be involved?
They’re the ones being paid to figure things out. NOT YOU.
This answer is about things that happened in the 1980s.
This one like all the rest is a dirty trick.
If the police want to pull you over for being under the influence they will get behind you and follow for a while. When they think you have noticed them, THEY will start to weave back and forth slightly. What this does is, when most people look in the rear view mirror and see the police swerving in their mind subconsciously its NOT the police doing it they think they are the one doing it. This is because when you are looking in the mirror you are focused on them and not the road, so it looks like you are not staying still. As soon as you start weaving back and forth that’s when the blue lights come on. They use this so that the camera will catch you doing it so they will have probable cause to pull you over. AND probable cause to “ASSUME” you are under the influence. Here comes the field sobriety test and the test that EVERY lawyer will tell you not to take! DO NOT BLOW IN THAT MACHINE!!! EVER!!!! EVEN IF YOU ARE STONE COLD SOBER!!!!! TRUST ME!!!!!
*however in most cases be prepared to take a trip in the back of his car.
Here’s a curious one I heard about years ago in my city. Police posed as homeless guys and hung out on street corners checking out the cars that stopped at intersections. As I heard it explained, it’s a perfect way to inspect cars and people for any signs of criminal activity. You’re up a little higher, can look down into the cars to inspect and typically, the people in the cars never look at those homeless guys on street corners examining their cars.
As it turns out, I had a chance to confirm this. For decades I worked a homeless Sunday breakfast at my church. Lots of opportunities to talk with the boys on the boulevards and learn about life on the streets. I asked several one Sunday if this police/homeless/street corner story was true and several quickly confirmed.
While the police always dressed down for this assignment, the homeless boys said there were a couple of ways to identify them. First, look at their shoes. They said the cops wore the more expensive athletic shoes in case they needed to chase someone down and typically much nicer and newer kicks than a homeless dude could afford. Next tip was to just watch them right after the cars passed. If they grabbed their collar and began talking into their shirt, they were alerting a police cruiser down the street for possible suspects. Their main complaint about this was that the cops “always took the best corners for spare change.”
What I don’t know is what the cops did with any cash they received.
There is a trick to get around the 5th Amendment and get people to confess so it is not a violation of the defendant’s rights. After people have been given their Miranda warning and they state they do not want to speak to the police, the police quit asking questions. The police however do not get up and walk out of the interview room. They just sit there with the suspect. The police do not ask the suspect any questions, they just sit there. In any social situation, people get uncomfortable when there is silence in a room. The suspect then begins speaking of their own volution and are not being, “questioned” by the police. Suspects will then make a, “spontaneous confession.” The suspect was then basically tricked into making a confession by the police just sitting in the room. A spontaneous confession is admissible in court if the suspect has been Mirandized but then makes an inculpating statement without being questioned.
