• Bosco@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Speak to them through the closed/locked door, DO NOT open the door or exit your home unless they are serving a warrant, at which point you should be asking to see it.

    Stepping outside can potentially impact your protection under different interpretations of constitutional rights and also opens the doors to a litany of manufactured charges/claims from the police to justify entering the home or seizing individuals.

    • They got aggressive and threatening and/or assaulted an officer.
    • I saw ______ inside the home when they opened the door.
    • I detected the scent/signs of ______.

    Getting back into your house once outside is infinitely more likely to trigger the cops to escalate the situation compared to never exposing yourself to that rush by not opening the door to begin with.

    Not to mention the garbage where somehow an officer can place their foot/body into the open doorway of you open the door at which point if you attempt to close the door they claim assaulting an officer.

    Don’t open the door. Don’t go outside to speak with them. If they’ve got a warrant they’re not going to be asking.

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    3 months ago

    Doesn’t work for traffic stops. See so many YouTube videos where they are pulled over and say this repeatedly. And just make things worse.

  • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Brits do not follow their guide. At the very least the searches part. Police have a right to search you and will use force to do it if you try to stop them.

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    3 months ago

    FYI, if they have a warrant, they no longer need your consent to do a search. Still ask for and check the paperwork, but while you’re doing that they’re gonna be searching your house. If you try to stop them you’ll be arrested.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Good points.

    Also, don’t do two illegal things at once. Like, you can have crack in your pocket, or you can jaywalk. But you can’t do both.

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      3 months ago

      I used to be a street racer type jackass 20 years ago and I was religious about this. Never kept so much as a paperclip in the car. When I was heading out to be a dickhead.

      I know 3 people who the police charged with “Possession of burglary tools” for having mechanics gloves and basic tools in the car because they didnt actually catch us racing so couldnt do anything.

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    3 months ago

    Does it actually work if it isn’t being recorded?

    What stops police from ignoring you and telling the judge, “Yes he said I could come in and look around.”

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    3 months ago

    Canadians, do not follow this guide. I saw a Canadian on YouTube who thought Canada had the same constitution as the US and it didn’t end well.

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      3 months ago

      What are you even talking about? There is lots different about USA and Canada, but in terms of the things listed in the original image I don’t see any differences.

      Edit: After looking it over again, yep…literally everything on the card is good and valid advice for Canadians. None of it has anything to do with any constitution at all lol.

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        3 months ago

        The person isn’t even Canadian and has no idea what they are talking about.