Anonymous Attorney

About me:

Read my blog and look at the video. I'm a lawyer who has become familiar with some of the training and practices of law enforcement as a union-side labor lawyer. Our union represented public employees, some of whom were cops. So, I defended their Collective Bargaining Agreement and litigated disciplinary cases. I got to know the standards by which cops are disciplined, and, as a result, got to know some of how they're trained. You need to know some of this stuff to best protect yourself from getting busted. As a lawyer, I have a pretty good idea of how the 4th and 5th Amendments are supposed to work. If you know some basics of how cops are trained and your 4th and 5th Amendment rights, you can save yourself a lot of bullshit and hassle. Learn how to avoid the police in the first place, if you're stopped don't be tricked into giving consent to a search, and if your arrested tell the police you don't want to talk till you get a lawyer. My purpose here is not to give people individual legal advice. I believe that if the public understands how law enforcement is trained, how they think, and why they do what they do - along with mistakes people commonly make in their encounters with police - everyone will be safer and less vulnerable to arrest and, consequently, having a very bad day. The following video is produced by www.flexyourrights.org with Ira Glasser, attorney and former Executive Directer of the American Civil Liberties Union. It is a little goofy, but it provides excellent examples of what to do, and not to do, in encounters with law enforcement. Spending 45 minutes watching it may save you unmeasurable misery. Please watch it and share it with your friends.