Why You Should Never Talk To A Cop

I'm not one to spend my time trying to read all the cool sites out there. I gave up on slashdot about 6 or 8 years ago, I think. While Rands has some atypical hardon for Twitter as a data source (I still WTF?! heavily over that) I rely on people. Sure, Twitter is fed by people, but it's mindless drivel that comes across it. (Keep reading, I'm going somewhere with this.)

No, I rely on people I know to forward links of interest. I like Google's Reader, because people I know can one-click-share content they find valuable. Good chance I find it valuable, also.

One of those is JB. He has good shit to share. Even if I'm not interested in every item he has (which is one of my criteria of Who I Pay Attention To... are their links mostly interesting? Is it lolcats? DIAF.) they're all good and relevent at some level.

Drilling down further and to tie this back in to the original point of entry on this post, of the ones he shares this is one of the most interesting (and from a "big" site which I can't be bothered to skim):

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/28/law-prof-and-cop-agr.html

Law prof and cop agree: never ever ever ever ever ever ever talk to the cops about a crime, even if you're innocent

In a brilliant pair of videos, ,(sic) Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law and Officer George Bruch of the Virginia Beach Police Department present a forceful case for never, ever, ever speaking to the police without your lawyer present. Ever. Never, never, never.

Those of you that know me know that I rarely (note that) use absolute statements. However, when they say "never" here, they mean "never" the same way I do when I say "never".