[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I hate when newspapers report that someone is "uncooperative" with police officers.

Cops view it as their jobs to hang something like this on someone so by God, they're going to find a murderer in a high-profile case...oh yes, they'll find a 'murderer' for damn sure.

If someone's murdered in my front yard while I'm in Japan, if officers come to my front door and I have my passport triple stamped and signed affidavits from 18 people as to my whereabouts when the murder was committed, I'd still tell them to go get a warrant and we'll talk.

By the time they get back I'll have lawyered up and absolutely everything they get from me will be compelled by a magistrate.

Why? Because you're going to have to prove cause to get it and it's going to be a hell of a lot harder to fit facts to your narrative beforehand that way.

Being 'cooperative' in a damn homicide investigation is stupid. If a cop ever shows up asking you about a murder, I don't care how innocent you are, you lawyer up immediately and you make sure that said lawyer is there for every question you answer, every search that's conducted and ever statement made to you. This is your freedom on the line - being flippant isn't a good idea.

This. This times eleventy billion.