Eight reasons even the innocent shouldn’t talk to the police

The video in this blog post makes me wish I was smart enough to have gone to law school. (I never even made it through college, so that’s a non-starter.) I may have to make an MP3 of this. Intelligent rational people cheer me up, especially when they’re great communicators. Yes, even when the situation they’re describing is a blunt and brutal indictment of how far beyond rationality our criminal justice system — and society by extension — have gone.

Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law explains why even angels devoid of the slightest moral blemish should never speak to police officers, tax collectors or other law-enforcement agents investigating crimes.

Disloyal Opposition: Eight reasons even the innocent shouldn’t talk to the police.

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