A Law Professor Explains Why You Should Never Talk to Police
How far do you take this? If I see someone in a car throw some trash at a bicyclist, and then swerve and knock the cyclist off the road...should I not give a description of the car and driver to the police?Or suppose a child disappears on the way home from school. Police ask people along the child's normal route if they saw her that day (they are trying to narrow down where she may have been abducted). I was out mowing the lawn that afternoon and did see her walk by, and know the time to within 5 minutes. Should I not tell the police?In prior discussions of this video on other forums, people have told me that based on it they would in fact not say anything in the above examples. If people won't tell the police these kind of things, it is going to be a lot easier to persuade people to support pervasive public surveillance.