MarcosSantiago
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I got the link to this article last week, from a friend.
Some of you may have something to say.
"Dale Carson is a defense attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as an alumnus of the Miami-Dade Police Department and the FBI. So he knows a thing or two about how cops determine who to hassle, and what all of us can do to not be one of those people. Carson has distilled his tips into a book titled Arrest-Proof Yourself, now in its second edition. It is a legitimately scary book— 369 pages of insight on the many ways police officers profile and harass the people on their beat in an effort to rack up as many arrests as possible.
"Law enforcement officers now are part of the revenue gathering system," Carson tells me in a phone interview. "The ranks of cops are young and competitive, they’re in competition with one another and intra-departmentally. It becomes a game. Policing isn’t about keeping streets safe, it’s about statistical success. The question for them is, Who can put the most people in jail?"
Which would make the question for you and me, how can we stay out of jail? Carson's book does a pretty good job of explaining -in frank language- how to beat a system that's increasingly predatory. "
Link: The Atlantic Cities - http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/11/ex-cops-guide-not-getting-arrested/7491/ The link has hundreds of comments.
The book presents the concept of "The Criminal Pyramid". The huge base of this pyramid is composed by "Clueless petty offenders". The second layer (much thinner) is "Career Criminals", and the top of the pyramid is "Violent Criminals, Big Crooks".
"Clueless petty offenders" are defined in the book as "the overwhelming majority of people who are arrested, jailed, and tried by a criminal justice system that to an alarming degree is operating mindlessly on autopilot".
The book also presents the concept of "Cluelessness Quotient" (Clue-Q). "The higher your cluelessness quotient, the more likely you are to be arrested".
And the "Arrestability Quotient", or Arrest-Q: "The more you’re visible, fit the crook profile, or are incongruous, the more likely you are to get stopped and questioned by police".
Last, it is somewhat controversial, because all of the recommendations are inline with "roll-and-play-dead" strategy: to obey all police commands, and if that fails, to vomit, defecate on yourself, or cry, to avoid arrest. No, I am not kidding. That is in the book.
“If nothing else has worked so far, you can try this last and most extreme measure. Foul yourself so that the police will consider setting you free in order not to get their cruiser nasty. If you’ve been drinking, throw up all over your shirt, not on the ground...” etc.etc.etc.
Here is the book (first edition, not the latest one) in PDF format
Some of you may have something to say.
"Dale Carson is a defense attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as an alumnus of the Miami-Dade Police Department and the FBI. So he knows a thing or two about how cops determine who to hassle, and what all of us can do to not be one of those people. Carson has distilled his tips into a book titled Arrest-Proof Yourself, now in its second edition. It is a legitimately scary book— 369 pages of insight on the many ways police officers profile and harass the people on their beat in an effort to rack up as many arrests as possible.
"Law enforcement officers now are part of the revenue gathering system," Carson tells me in a phone interview. "The ranks of cops are young and competitive, they’re in competition with one another and intra-departmentally. It becomes a game. Policing isn’t about keeping streets safe, it’s about statistical success. The question for them is, Who can put the most people in jail?"
Which would make the question for you and me, how can we stay out of jail? Carson's book does a pretty good job of explaining -in frank language- how to beat a system that's increasingly predatory. "
Link: The Atlantic Cities - http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/11/ex-cops-guide-not-getting-arrested/7491/ The link has hundreds of comments.
The book presents the concept of "The Criminal Pyramid". The huge base of this pyramid is composed by "Clueless petty offenders". The second layer (much thinner) is "Career Criminals", and the top of the pyramid is "Violent Criminals, Big Crooks".
"Clueless petty offenders" are defined in the book as "the overwhelming majority of people who are arrested, jailed, and tried by a criminal justice system that to an alarming degree is operating mindlessly on autopilot".
The book also presents the concept of "Cluelessness Quotient" (Clue-Q). "The higher your cluelessness quotient, the more likely you are to be arrested".
And the "Arrestability Quotient", or Arrest-Q: "The more you’re visible, fit the crook profile, or are incongruous, the more likely you are to get stopped and questioned by police".
Last, it is somewhat controversial, because all of the recommendations are inline with "roll-and-play-dead" strategy: to obey all police commands, and if that fails, to vomit, defecate on yourself, or cry, to avoid arrest. No, I am not kidding. That is in the book.
“If nothing else has worked so far, you can try this last and most extreme measure. Foul yourself so that the police will consider setting you free in order not to get their cruiser nasty. If you’ve been drinking, throw up all over your shirt, not on the ground...” etc.etc.etc.
Here is the book (first edition, not the latest one) in PDF format
