Please do!! These are your most basic but most important of Constitutional rights. It's very important to flex your rights any chance you get. Not because you're doing something wrong necessarily but to not use your rights to force the police to comply with the laws if nothing else. They're not used to people using these rights, and they take advantage of that sooooo much. Cops need to know their limits and respect your (and everyone's) rights, as it is now they don't respect our rights because people hardly ever invoke them. So police are on a power trip, and that's bad for everyone.
A lot of people feel like if they refuse a search, or ask for a lawyer, that it makes them 'look' guilty. Well, who cares what it looks like. You'll be much better off legally to use those rights. It may 'look' bad to other people, but to cops, it doesn't make a difference, they can't convict you on opinion, and what they thing of a person who refuses a search or lawyers up is, "that guy is smart, crap". Not "that guy is guilty".
Do you like cops?????
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Please do!! These are your most basic but most important of Constitutional rights. It's very important to flex your rights any chance you get. Not because you're doing something wrong necessarily but to not use your rights to force the police to comply with the laws if nothing else. They're not used to people using these rights, and they take advantage of that sooooo much. Cops need to know their limits and respect your (and everyone's) rights, as it is now they don't respect our rights because people hardly ever invoke them. So police are on a power trip, and that's bad for everyone.
A lot of people feel like if they refuse a search, or ask for a lawyer, that it makes them 'look' guilty. Well, who cares what it looks like. You'll be much better off legally to use those rights. It may 'look' bad to other people, but to cops, it doesn't make a difference, they can't convict you on opinion, and what they thing of a person who refuses a search or lawyers up is, "that guy is smart, crap". Not "that guy is guilty".