I watched all of this and was glued to it.

The most compelling reason to me is also the most obvious one. It doesn’t stand to benefit you anything, it can only work against you. It interested me to hear that the part of the Miranda read to you which states “....may be used against you in court” means specifically what it says. It can’t help you at all, and the attorney giving the lecture even says that any testimony that you give to the police which may even benefit your case will be dismissed as hearsay in court. Damn, just damn.

Officer Bruch says a lot of the standard things that I probably could’ve guessed (the traffic ticket is the police case against you, their lines of questioning seek confessions, etc.) but his most powerful statements (to me) are where he explains his view on his role in the judicial process. Not to help you, but to help the state’s case against you, if he has cause to suspect you of something.  When he says his job is to get you to confess before the D.A. can get to you, and the D.A.‘s job is to hope he gets to you before Bruch does, that pretty much nails it, to me.

I got it. Thanks, but no thanks, Officer. I’d like to speak to my attorney, please.

H/T: Ace of Spades