re: #137 windsagio

Told the story before, so I’ll do the short version. I was arrested for shoplifting a store I was nowhere near, they wouldn’t check my readily checkable alibi (I was in another store for an hour at the time), held me in the back of a car for several hours, lied to, intimidated, lied to again, had to pay for a lawyer, and eventually had all charges dropped.

Cops really really shouldn’t be able to lie to suspects to get them to confess things.

Sorry you were mistreated, but the rules letting cops lie isn’t going to be changed. Any political figure who proposed that would be hammered for favoring criminals and it would reduce the ability of police to effectively interrogate.