JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for March 18, 2015
March 17, 2015
March 19, 2015
Transcript:
You have the right to remain silent. DO you understand? yes. Anything you say may be used against you in court. Do you understand? On Tv the cops go through it real quick while slapping on the cuffs! Which real cops never understand.
Squizzums over 9 years ago
How about comic strip cops? Do they understand?
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction over 9 years ago
monotones don’t do well conveying informationJoe and friends are the best cops
Thomas Scott Roberts creator over 9 years ago
Real cops don’t have to worry about making time for the next commercial break.
MeGoNow Premium Member over 9 years ago
It’s mostly on account of where the screenwriters live and where the stuff is filmed, most often in states, NY being one, I think, where rights must be read immediately upon arrest. That’s purely state law overeaching, not a Constitutional issue, and they are indeed often delivered rapidly. It’s just a thing you have to do. In most places, the rights warnings and waivers have strictly to do with interrogations of someone in custody. Crooks here (Texas) are frequently complaining that they weren’t read their rights. Well, no. I’m not asking you anything that needs you to waive them. When we get down to the real warnings and waivers, they will be in writing, and you’ll have to waive each one. That’s Texas law, which goes beyond the Constitutional minimum.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 9 years ago
Hey! What happened to his pipe?!?!?
hippogriff over 9 years ago
PipeTobacco: Confiscated. No smoking in the precinct.
Michael Ritter over 9 years ago
It’s not “may be used against you;” it’s “can and will be used against you.” If the suspect is lead to believe he has wiggle room, the court will toss his incriminating statement. There’s more to this cop business than meets the eye.
K M over 9 years ago
Very frequently, entertainment media condense reality for the sake of the story. There are, for example, almost no CSIs who actually interrogate perps. That’s left to detectives, who are trained in the act. But as I was taught in one or another drama class, all theater is predicated upon the willing suspension of disbelief. You know these aren’t cops; you accept that they are for the sake of telling the story. (Except, that is, for the clueless perp who knocked off a drug store and stumbled onto the open-air set of “Homicide” more than a few years ago. Perp tried to turn himself in to either one of the detective lead actors or one of the uniformed extras on the set, who then took the perp to a real cop running security on the set for the actual collar.)