“I had nothing to hide,” is a common excuse we hear for why our clients talked with Greeley Police Officers. You should never speak with cops. You do have something to hide and police interview tactics often work to get you to say something which can hurt you. Here is some insider information: Anything can hurt you, depending on the story against you which the police have been told. Police are trained to get people to talk with them, in order to get convictions.
Examples of Why a Greeley Police Officer Likes to Talk to those Accused or Arrested
Imagine the police officer needs to prove you were driving your car in a hit and run. Imagine an officer needs to prove you were at someone’s apartment recently. Consider a cop might want to show you did not like someone, so you had a motive to harm them. In cases where you are completely innocent, admitting the information a Greeley officer needs will make it more likely you get convicted and go to the Weld County Jail. Consider this: did you know that police believe the person who first calls police about 75% of the time? Next, they will not interview anyone who thinks the other person is innocent and interview everyone who thinks you are guilty. Police think their job is to convict you!
What are Police Interview Tactics in Weld County?
Police tactics are something they do to gain helpful information for your prosecution. Here is a real Colorado Appeals Court text from a case where a person was convicted for something they said they did not do:
“Defendant contends that the officer testified concerning specialized knowledge and crossed the line into expert testimony when explaining (to the jury) the ‘tactics and techniques’ of interviews.”
“The officer’s testimony included information on “rapport-building sessions”; how he watched for verbal and nonverbal clues; and how he would confront interviewees when he believed they were not being truthful. He also testified that an interviewee’s denial will become weaker as the interview progresses, and that he used the concept of justification and other themes to make interviewees feel better about confessing to a particular crime. The officer testified that he used all of these techniques when interviewing defendant.”
People v. Conyac, 361 P.3d 1005 (Colo. App. 2014).
Arrested and Held for Questioning?
Greeley Police have Interview Techniques to Convict you
Before or after you’ve been arrested, Greeley Police will want to try and get evidence to use against you at your trial. They get trained on how to make it more likely you’ll talk with them. In addition to interview tactics training, officers do these things to make it more likely you will help build their case against you:
- Make you sit alone for a long time in a quiet interview room
- Come into a room and falsely tell you that your friend just accused you of doing everything
- Lie about having other witnesses who say they saw you commit the crime
- Act really nice in order to gain your confidence
- Pretend they don’t think you did the crime, but just need your help finding the real suspect
- Misquote you in a police report
- Pretend they are on your side
- Promise to let you go if you’ll talk with them
- Tell you the interview is just a formality
- Offer you food or water (sort of like with a puppy to get him to like you)
Police are Not Your Friend and Have a Big Bias in Greeley Courts
Unlike on TV, Police officers get paid to find the bad guy and prove he is guilty. The first person who calls police is usually the one they support. You can’t talk them out of arresting you or charging you. Once they have someone accusing you, they feel it is their job to support THEIR victim. That means they will lie to get you to talk and hurt yourself. They will even tell you they think “the other guy” is lying and they need your help to prove your innocence! Only when it is too late and you are in jail, having spilled tons of valuable information, do you realize they are liars. Don’t fall for it. Keep quiet!
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