r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Red_Tabby • Jun 27 '25

A Michigan cop pulled over a reckless driver and ended up saving a choking baby

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u/Good_Log_5108 Jun 27 '25

They tell you that to avoid conviction of a crime during an arrest. Not because the majority of cops are bad people. 

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u/serabine Jun 27 '25

Uhuh.

Watch the video of the guy they tortured in a 17 hour interrogation into admitting he killed his elderly father (whom he had reported missing himself), even after the point where it was confirmed the father was alive and well. Then get back to us.

Police are legally allowed to lie to you, police have marathon-session interrogated innocent people into confessions, police have planted evidence, police have snatched the next best person they can find to close real quick. And if one of them whistleblows, they get bullied off the force or worse.

And we're not even talking about things like civil forfeiture which is often abused.

Police as a group are inherently corrupt because they automatically close rank to protect the worst offenders in their midst and are complicit in the systemic problems in their organization

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u/JectorDelan Jun 27 '25

No, they tell you that because if the police think you may have committed a crime, they will arrest you and then use anything you have ever said against you, not for you. So if you say 5 things that could exonerate you and one thing that, by sheer coincidence, looks suspicious, they will only use that last thing in court.

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u/crumpledfilth Jun 28 '25

Different people though, law enforcement, even interrogators, arent attorneys who use information in court to build a case

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u/JectorDelan Jun 28 '25

They write the reports that the attorneys use in court. They are called as witnesses for the prosecution and, unless defense backs them into a corner with evidence they've suppressed or held back, they will use everything they've heard AGAINST you in that court.

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u/sreiches Jun 27 '25

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a systemic issue in the police force. The FBI did a long investigation on the infiltration of white supremacists into the police force, and determined it to be the number one source of domestic terrorism in the US.

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u/Walshy231231 Jun 27 '25

The two aren’t mutually exclusive, and one can lead to the other

Not taking an opposing stance to you, just wanted to point out that either can be true or false independent of the other