The type that want to “Get along” with the cops more than defend their rights.
The type that are willing to surrender their rights as they “Have nothing to hide”.
The type who think “Only criminals try to demand privacy rights”.
The type that take their clue from current television programming, which routinely portrays the cops as always being “Right” even when they flagrantly abuse their authority via warrant-less searches, intimidation, torture, etc.
People’s civil rights are violated by “Our” LE routinely.
For a quick example, recall all the “DUI checkpoint’s” which assume driver guilt.
Such violations rarel gets any notice by the media unless they result in a “Technicality” letting some one off for a charge the media/DA insist they were actually guilty of.
I recently opted for a laywer instead of talking to the police. Clearly what they were claiming was bogus and can be easily proven; however, by opting not to talk to them I chose the harder path to follow.
Now I have legal fees and have to prove my innocence. If I had spoke to the police I believe they would have seen it my way and this whole issue would be behind me.
But then you take your chances because if you say something incorrectly they will use it against you. I’m not sure what the right way ahead is. If in this same situation I may opt for the easier path becuase this path is so damn hard and worrisome.
And on those cop shows you see them let guilty people go all the time for just being honest with the cop. But then I’ve seen cops also arrest people after they said they’d let them go if they told them they did it.
Personally I think the fix is to hard police and prosecutors to a higher standard. Not a higher standard of proof, but higher standard of punishment. If a cop or court official is found guilty of any crimes it should be double the mandatory minimum/maximum for the crime. Since it’s so hard for them to get caught they need a little more encouragement to keep clean.
“For a quick example, recall all the “DUI checkpoint’s” which assume driver guilt.”
In practice, a serial child molester who murders his victims is given more benefit from his constitutional rights than the drunk driver who blows a .11 and ran slightly over the white line once.