Quote: (01-26-2015 05:07 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:Bingo....I noticed on this forum and many others they use probable cause all the time. Sure Detectives deal more with that but your basic uniform blue shirted cop isn't out there doing that. Leave that to the court and testifying.
Quote: (01-26-2015 04:44 PM)jimukr104 Wrote:
Also a lot of people like to use legal terms..probable cause and seem to forget cops actually have a lower quantifier called REASONABLE SUSPICION(google it). This is the uniform patrol cops level needed to engage.
Because most uniform cops arrest people either by witnessing crime or arrestig based on victim complaint. We have no intention of investigating or interrogating you.
Hollywood has brainwashed the American people because most tv shows/movies deal with detectives who investigate and often detain people for questioning,and interrogation. But 90+% of arrests are active real time arrests and there is no interrogation needed.
I didn't know about the reasonable suspicion clause. Thanks for posting it.
It makes sense that most people wrongfully think the cops ought to behave like the ones on television. And you just described how "probable cause" - (which is, I think, a term used to decide whether evidence gathered by a police officer is allowed to be admitted as evidence during a trial?) - is wrongly conceived as "reasonable suspicion".
To me, the way you describe it is better than the way they depict it on TV. I don't want any police officer to be a "criminal catcher" AND lawyer at the same time. I just want my police to catch criminals, for my lawyers to determine whether a criminal should be prosecuted, and for my judges to determine punishment.
The idea of a policeman/lawyerman at the same time is scary. The idea of a policeman who is ONLY there to catch you and bring you to court is much less scary. (And when you realize how limited the police officer's power actually is, the more it makes sense to just obey, be polite, and use the catch-phrases featured in the Flex Your Rights video.)
Yes that is why it is better to cooperate if you are innocent because ultimately the judge and lawyers will work it out. It is their job to decipher all the legal jargon.
Problem is the movies have made cops out to be some dedicated obsessed guy who fakes evidence , etc to GET you!
But the average cop isn't even involved in the case. I barely ever went to criminal court because they don't need me. My report describes why I arrested them but it is for them to determine the merit of the actually case (witness lying perhaps?)
Human behavior is giving cops reasonable suspicion. If people would just chill out cops would actually have less reason to STOP people!
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He dropped the gun and picked it up. He would be alive if had not gone back for his fucking gun.
Yep, he got shot for arming himself NOT for running away!