Lab-based research shows that adults can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that as teens they perpetrated crimes that never actually occurred.
Good time to reiterate - Never talk to the police. They are not your friend. Anything you say will be used against you. They will do anything they can get away with to get an admission, or just steal your property because they can.
Don’t Talk to The Police (lecture featuring a lawyer and a retired cop detailing why it will never help to talk).
It doesn’t matter if you don’t talk, because the police will join your social media and chat groups and keep asking their questions for years until they get the answers they like.
The difference is that we are living in an extremely invasive surveillance state.
Good time to reiterate - Never talk to the police. They are not your friend. Anything you say will be used against you. They will do anything they can get away with to get an admission, or just steal your property because they can.
Don’t Talk to The Police (lecture featuring a lawyer and a retired cop detailing why it will never help to talk).
That’s outdated advice.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t talk, because the police will join your social media and chat groups and keep asking their questions for years until they get the answers they like.
The difference is that we are living in an extremely invasive surveillance state.
Real police work isn’t like the movies.
Unless you’ve murdered the Governor’s daughter, police will not follow you around on social media for years trying to catch you slip.