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Police - Questions To Ask
Eddie Craig
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necessary, LIE
about who you have on the phone!! Tell the officer that it is your legal counsel on the line and
you
will not comply with any of his/her demands without proper legal advice
from your counsel. There
is no law
against being on the phone during such an encounter, nor is there any legal basis for an officer to
threaten you or
demand that you disconnect your call during the encounter. The idiotic claim that such a demand
is related to
officer safety is
not a plausible basis for such demand.
What you say and do during a transportation
stop can mean the difference between simply getting a
citation
(or not) and being released to continue on your way
, or, being
hauled off (illegally) to jail. These
questions and actions are specifically designed to protect both your physical being and your
fundamentally
protected rights. If you fail to follow these recommended procedures then you should not be
surprised when
things do not go the way you want them to. Ignore
these procedures at your own peril.
YOU must control the information exchange and your
own
emotional state. Do not allow yourself to become
flustered, frustrated, afraid, or angry. Maintain your composure and speak in a calm and collected
voice and
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manner
at all times. You want the video evidence to show that
Dos
and
Dont
s
:
Do
remember that an officer is REQUIRED to read you your rights before questioning or
searching
you if they have placed you in a custodial arrest
. I n Texas you
ARE
ALWAYS
in a custodial arrest when
stopped for an alleged traffic offense
(see Secs.
543.001-.009
, Texas Transp. Code).
Th
e reading of
your rights
is a mandatory requirement that works in your favor unless/until you behave stupidly by
talking voluntarily
(see
Art
.
38.22
, Texas Code
of Crim. Proc.)
. Be aware, however,
they almost NEVER
do this, meaning that
anything
incriminating that
you
may
say or that they
may
find can be suppressed as
an involuntary or coerced statement or illegal warrantless search and seizure.
You should also be aware
that the officer(s) is/are t
rained to lie about you being in a custodial arrest and will most likely
say
instead
that you are in an investigative detention.
If you are in Texas
(and most other states)
, then
understand that this is a TOTAL LIE! You almost always ARE in a full
-blo
wn custodial arrest (see Legal
Equation illustration below).
Dont
EVER answer an officers questions. You have the right to remain silent, so USE IT!
However, being silent DOES NOT mean to suddenly become a DEAF MUTE!
It simply means that you
are
NOT
to provide ANY information or documents in response to the officers demands or
questions
.
Invoke your
fundamentally protected right to remain silent and to assistance of counsel, and then
simply refuse
to waive them
,
which you will do if you comply with
the officers demands
. The foremost
thing to remember in these situations is to NOT engage the officer(s) in idle
conversation, dialog, or chit
chat.
It is important that the ONLY
things you say to the officer(s) are specifically directed at the
reservati
on and protection of your fundamentally protected rights
, and nothing else. This is known as my
self
-imposed rule of invoke, demand, protect.
Once you have invoked the
se rights NEVER waive or
abandon them by ignoring the
se recommended procedures. Questio
ns like Where are you coming
from?, Where are you going?, Who are you meeting? have NOTHING to do with a
transportation
stop. They are used simply
to get additional
information that may allow the officer to
continue his witch
hunt and escalate the
severity of the charge(s) he might make against you. Also, NEVER answer questions
like Do you know why I pulled you over? or Are you aware that you ...?
STOP HELPING HIM
SCREW YOU OVER! DONT ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
!! Remember the cardinal rule about talk
ing
freely, SHUT UP, KEEP SHUTTING UP, and when you have done that, SHUT UP SOME
MORE!!
Whatever you say CAN and WILL be used against you in a court of law, so SHUT UP
unless you are
doing or saying something specified in this script!
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Do
remember to
roll
up ALL of your windows and to lock your doors whenever you get pulled over,
and
dont
ever open them or get out
. That being said, MY
personal habit, on warm and sunny days, has
always been to
carefully but quickly exit the car (keeping my hands in plain v
iew)
BEFORE the officer
can prevent me from doing so, w
hile
simultaneously
locking my doors, throw
ing
the keys
into the front
seat, and clos
ing the door. Doing this removes the possibility of you having access to any form of
weapon
that may be inside the car and could be used to injure the officer(s). In this way the
officer no longer has
the legal ability or excuse to conduct a warrantless search
of your car, even if they tow it. Remember to
keep a spare door key in your wallet, pocket, or purse if you do this.
However, if it is freezing cold and/or
pouring down rain, remain in your car and let the officer stand outside for as long as he
likes in order to
conduct his unlawful and illegal witch hunt while you
take your time
in follow
ing
this script
.
Dont
E VER roll down more than one (1) window at a time if you remain in your car during the
stop,
no matter what the officer(s) tell you to do. This eliminates the possibility of an officer
fabricating an
opportunity to escalate the stop by saying that the resul
ting cross
-breeze allowed him/her to smell
something.
If you must open a different window then be certain that you have closed all other
windows
before
doing so.
Dont
EVER roll down
your
one
open
window more than t
wo and ahalf (2.5) inches, no matter wha
t
the officer(s) tell you to do, and for the same reasons as stated above. Just say
I
can hear you fine
officer and I
am most comfortable with the window at its current level, thank you.
Dont
EVER provide an officer with any documents or other information that they demand. The
legal
ramifications to your
fundamentally
protected rights are devastating.
Dont
EVER give your consent to an officer to search your car
for any reason
. You are just asking to
have incriminating
evidence planted or discovered tha
t could be used to criminally charge
you, and it
wont matter if you knew it was there or not, YOU CONSENTED TO THE
WARRANLTESS SEARCH!!
DONT BE AN IDIOT!!
Dont
let them threaten or coerce you into waiving this right because it also
attaches to the waive
r of other important fundamental rights that are essential to your legal wellbeing
.
Even if they threaten to have a canine unit report to the scene you must not waive this
right. Tell the
officer
I do not consent to being detained by you for any additional time or other purposes. Am
I free
to go or are you going to continue to illegally falsely imprison me beyond the time
needed to conclude
this stop?
JUST SAY NO TO WARRANTLESS SEARCHES
!!
Officers
will almost always insist that you are NOT under custodial
arrest, but rather are
simply
being detained
or are part of an investigative detention.
This is a blatant lie most of the time. No
officer has the authority to simply walk up and demand that you answer questions,
produce ID, or provide
them with your private information, verbally or otherwise. Be aware, however, that when
you wont
submit and give them your information,
their favorite tactic is to threaten to charge you with Failure to
Identify. However, i
n Texas law
(Sec.
38.02
, Penal Code)
you can be charged with Failure to Identify
ONLY if you have ALREADY been
lawfully
arrested for
some other offense
, or, you are being
lawfully
detained for questioning in a criminal investigation, and then ONLY under the following
conditions and
circumstances;
i n either case you are required to
give ONLY your name, address, and DOB, nothing
more
; i n the case of
already
being lawfully arrested
for some other offense, you cannot
refuse
to provide
these three things; i
n the case of being lawfully detained, you cannot provide
false responses
for these
three things
, but you CAN refuse to provide them at all
. You can provide this information verbally
(Texas). There is no law
in Texas
that requires that it be presented on some form of physical ID or
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m of ID
.
W AR N I N G ! !
It is of the utmost importance that you understand the true nature and purpose of a
transportation stop.
The goal of every enforcement officer nationwide is to create a situation that culminates
in one of two scenarios,
1) a DUI bust, or 2) a drug bust. This is ALWAYS the goal. It is NEVER about public
safety. It is always about
maximizing the potential charges against an individual and the revenue that a conviction
on those charges
generates. STOP HELPING THEM SET YOU UP FOR A FALL!
Also,
DO NOT attempt to educate the officer(s) about what they can and cannot do
or the law
associated
with transportation or the Code of Criminal Procedure. Register your verbal objection to
their actions for the
record
by following the procedures below. Napoleon had it right when he said Never interrupt
your enemy while
he is busy making mistakes. Learn from this wisdom or you WILL make your own fatal
mistakes.
Once you know the officer(s) name(s)
and badge number(s)
use them both toge
ther
as often as practicable as
shown in these procedures. Make him/them aware that they are being directly
associated with any unlawful and
illegal acts or violations of your fundamentally protected rights in which they might
otherwise engage during this
encounter.
While it is not fatal to the situation if you fail to do so,
it is relatively important that you try to do
things in the order and verbiage
presented below.
REMINDER:
It is important that the only things you say to the officer(s) are specifical
ly directed at the
reservation and protection of your fundamentally protected rights and
nothing else
. Once you have invoked
your rights NEVER waive or abandon them by ignoring the recommended procedures
listed above
and below
.
Simply repeat the verbiage i
n items 1 & 2
as necessary for each new officer you speak with
.
NOTE: Sub
-items 2
(a)(c)
are
optional
, but are also potentially useful during the discovery process if the
claim is made later
that the officers equipment was malfunctioning during the enc
ounter.
Bear in mind that
these
questions and statements by you are
VERY important to the record
you are trying to build, try to remember
this and use them accordingly.
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1)
For the record, may I get your name and badge number please?
2)
Officer _____________ Badg
e/ID # ________, i
s there a recording being made of this encounter?
a.
Is that recording comprised of both audio and video?
b.
Are you relatively certain that your recording equipment is functioning properly for the
purposes
of making this recording?
c.
Is your body microphone and camera, if any, turned on and functioning properly to the
best of
your knowledge?
3)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, what is the emergency and how can I
help?
4)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, what facts or information
are
you alleg
ing
gave you
probable cause to stop and accost me?
5)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you have a properly signed and
issued warrant
authorizing you to search me or my property?
a.
(IF YES)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you currently have that alleged
warrant in your possession, if so I would like to see it please
?
6)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you have a properly signed and
issued warrant of
arrest that accurately describes or names me as the person to be a
rrested?
a.
(IF YES)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you currently have that alleged
warrant in your possession, if so I would like to see it please
?
7)
For the record, I am not operating in a for hire capacity
by
engaging in any form of
tran
sportation
or
other
commercial use of the highways.
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________,
please
acknowledge that you have been so informed.
8)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, a
m I under custodial
arrest?
9)
If I am not under custodial arrest then am I free to go?
10)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, what is
the
articulable probable cause that
leads you
to believe that
I have committed or am about to commit a crime that authorizes you to stop
and
detain or arrest me?
11)
For the
record
Officer
_____________ Badge/ID # ________,
in order to protect my rights and not
waive any by error or accident, I wish to cl
arif
y my legal understanding of the situation:
a.
You said that
I am not free to go, so
I must conclude that I am in a custodial arrest
and
not simply
an investigative detention
.
b.
Therefore, I am invoking all of my
fundamentally protected right
s, including
my right to remain
silent and my right to assistance of counsel.
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c.
From this point forward I do not consent
to provid
ing you with any information or documents that
could
or will be used against me in a court of law or to possibly incriminate me, so please do
not
ask me to produce anything and give it to you.
d.
From this point forward please d
o not
ask me to answer
any questions or to perform any form of
test relating to any matter whatsoever without my attorney present.
e.
So, I ask you again Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you intend to
harm, injure,
steal my property, or
otherwise punish me for invoking my fundamentally protected rights?
WARNING
:
Be
prepared for the officer to do
or threaten precisely that, and they usually start
by
threatening you with all manner of unpleasantries
, including falsified criminal charges
. You only
need to use subitem a once on the first office
r that threatens you. When s/he/they begin(s) to do so,
state the following:
a.
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, due to your attitude
, demeanor,
and your
continuous threat
s to falsify charges and commit acts of violence against me
and my property
wh
ile displaying a deadly weapon, I feel physically threatened and in fear for my life
. I demand
that you
cease and desist and
request the
immediate
presence of a supervisor
. I do not consent to
any of your actions, the use of force against me or my property, or to being forced to exit
my car
for any purpose, especially so that you may attempt to steal my property and/or
assault, injure or
kill me
.
14)
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, you are fully aware that I have already
invoked my
fundamentally protected right to remain silent and my right to assistance of counsel. Do
you intend to
continue in your unlawful efforts to violate my rights?
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a.
It is my
belie
f that the information you are demanding may possibly be used against me in a court
of law or in an a
ttempt to incriminate me.
b.
And i
f that is so
, then,
upon the advice of legal counsel I must respectfully decline to provide you
with any information or evidence that possibly
can or would be used against me for those
purposes.
15)
YOU:
Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, your statement is patently false and
an outright lie. Are you now
trying to fabricate probable cause by making
false statements into
the record
and false allegations against me?
a.
Even if they threaten to have a canine unit report to the scene or to break out your
windows you
must not waive your fundamentally protected rights out of fear. Tell the officer
I do not consent
to being detained for any additional time or other purposes. Am I free to go or are you
going to
continue to illegally
terrorize,
threaten and falsely imprison me beyond the time needed to
conclude this
alleged transportation stop?
b.
Repeat steps
12 16a
as required for each new or
continued demand or threat imposed by the
officer(s).
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