In the words of every lawyer ever:
Don't talk to the cops. Also: don't talk to the cops. Further: don't talk to the cops.
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In the words of just some lawyers:
I have nothing against cops. Some of them are very good at their jobs. But their job isn't actually to help YOU.
Police are the good guys a lot of the time. But how many bad guys do you have to see before everyone looks like a bad guy? 10? 100? 10,000?
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Always assume you are being questioned by a cop who only sees bad guys because your life and liberty actually depend on it. Especially if they're nice and polite and smiling. Don't just hope and trust they're reasonable; the law is NOT forgiving. By the time you are sitting in front of a lot of these cops, there's no question in their minds you're a bad guy. Their job depends on tricking "bad guys" in to confessing. Everything you say will be twisted. Prison is full of people who were trying to explain themselves and purposefully got their words manipulated into something obviously wrong and insane.
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Imagine these words written in blood on the wall behind the officers: "I INVOKE MY RIGHT TO COUNSEL." Only stare at the wall and only repeat that phrase over and over.
This is the reason lawyers, in all their potential scummyness, exist and are important. To stop people from being manipulated and railroaded as much as possible. it's very hard to do that for people that have already said too much to someone who likely already thinks they're guilty.
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For the record: I have the utmost respect for cops. I think they have a very shitty and dangerous job that often involves dealing with potentially shitty and dangerous people.
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I've gained more respect for lawyers recently. The ones that actually give a crap about people, anyway. Which isn't all of them, but they are out there.
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At the end of the day, though, we are all humans, playing a wild and often faulty game of "whodunit."
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To make sure you don't ever end up in the kangaroo court of Ace Attorney, it's best to just look out for yourself. Which I'm pretty sure is what Jason was getting at anyway
My sister is a cop, and she works with some fantastic humans. She also works with some "badge-heavy" jackals that tend to put a LOT of people in prison and then get promoted like crazy. I definitely am not saying all cops are bad. I'm just saying to let a lawyer do your talking because when you do it, you are playing an intricate game with your own life and YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE RULES.
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If you're guilty, you will pay for your crimes. But if you're not guilty, you can still easily pay for crimes that bad cops gleefully invent. Just don't talk to them, ffs.
No one's saying they're out to get you. They're saying anything you say can and literally will be used against you. The less you say, the safer for you
Don't talk to the cops. Also: don't talk to the cops. Further: don't talk to the cops.
.
In the words of just some lawyers:
I have nothing against cops. Some of them are very good at their jobs. But their job isn't actually to help YOU.
,
Always assume you are being questioned by a cop who only sees bad guys because your life and liberty actually depend on it. Especially if they're nice and polite and smiling. Don't just hope and trust they're reasonable; the law is NOT forgiving. By the time you are sitting in front of a lot of these cops, there's no question in their minds you're a bad guy. Their job depends on tricking "bad guys" in to confessing. Everything you say will be twisted. Prison is full of people who were trying to explain themselves and purposefully got their words manipulated into something obviously wrong and insane.
,
Imagine these words written in blood on the wall behind the officers: "I INVOKE MY RIGHT TO COUNSEL." Only stare at the wall and only repeat that phrase over and over.
.
For the record: I have the utmost respect for cops. I think they have a very shitty and dangerous job that often involves dealing with potentially shitty and dangerous people.
.
I've gained more respect for lawyers recently. The ones that actually give a crap about people, anyway. Which isn't all of them, but they are out there.
.
At the end of the day, though, we are all humans, playing a wild and often faulty game of "whodunit."
.
To make sure you don't ever end up in the kangaroo court of Ace Attorney, it's best to just look out for yourself. Which I'm pretty sure is what Jason was getting at anyway
,
If you're guilty, you will pay for your crimes. But if you're not guilty, you can still easily pay for crimes that bad cops gleefully invent. Just don't talk to them, ffs.