Miranda rights kind of do that.
Anything you say can and will be used against you.
It does not say what you say can be used to help you.
cops are allowed to lie to you.
Why do you, as a people, allow such a thing?
The politicians of both sides allow it. How do you propose we fix it?
I can't tell because I don't know all the details of your system of governance.
But the general principle of a democracy is that the people are the highest authority, and the elected ones, who make the laws, have to serve the people.
The problem is that the people aren’t in control anymore. Laws have been twisted to basically allow big business to own the government. The conservatives which is not the majority have screed things up to the point that I’m not sure how we fix this anymore. 1969 ? Maybe. Today? No idea how we fix it
You think there is democracy in the US? Our votes don’t even matter because politicians purposefully draw the districts to favor the outcome they want (gerrymandering) and it’s completely legal because the people in charge of making the laws are the same people that are in control and want to stay in control.
The US is soft despotism.
Giant corporations literally buy the laws they want at the expense of the people, because politicians like money and are happy to sign away bills for a large bribe gift of a million dollars.
The people aren’t in control and haven’t been anywhere close to in control for nearly a century.
What was illegal for President Warren G Harding in the 1920’s (giving all his under qualified buddies cabinet positions, so they could all make huge deals with government contracts) is now just the norm and completely legal.
You think there is democracy in the US?
Last time when they voted, the still acted that way... :)
That’s why I mentioned that the US is just operating in a form of soft despotism. It is not obvious the the American people.
Most US citizens believe they have the power or believe they have a lot of power or even at least some power.
Soft despotism gives people the illusion that they are in control, but actually they don’t have any real influence over the government.
It does though, and it happens all the time. Many people will offer false confessions because they think the police have constructed a viable case against them and it is simply their least bad option to hope they cab get out of prison a little earlier.
They'll also gaslight, manipulate, or torture people into confessing. It's really fucked up.
What about innocent people who are coerced into admissions of guilt?
Fawning is a well studied stress response (1), false confessions happen.
“Anything you say can and will be used against you”
Innocent people get charges all the time because they don’t shut up when talking to cops.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
before going out and doing some dumb and illegal shit
It's not solely people guilty of a crime that are arrested.
You have it exactly and completely backwards.
Imagine:
Dave and Tom live on a desert island - just the two of them
Dave believes that all human beings have a right to life.
Tom does not - he believes that there can be no such thing.
Do either of them actually have, in a practical sense, a right to life?
The answer is yes - Tom has a right to life, because Dave has ceded it to him
It doesn't matter how strongly Dave believes in a right to life - he himself will never in fact have one because the only person who's in a position to respect it or violate it - Tom - doesn't even recognize it.
However, it also doesn't matter that Tom does not believe in a right to life - he does in fact have one, solely because Dave is the only person in a position to respect it or violate it, and Dave believes it exists.
Rights don't exist when they're claimed - they exist when they're recognized and respected.
So Miranda has it exactly right and you have it exactly wrong - it's not only not an accused criminal's responsibility to lay claim to their rights - it's functionally impossible for them to do so. The rights of an accused criminal "must* be stipulated by those who are in a position to violate them, because it's only by their recognition of them and respect for them that they can be meaningfully said to exist at all.
And that's also why an officer or an organization that will, if given the chance, ignore the rights of defendants must be stopped. By doing so, they are explicitly violating the trust that has been placed in them and demonstrating categorically that they cannot be allowed to wield that authority.
Putting aside any of the other concerns here just to focus on an underlying assumption in your post:
It's interesting that you assume everybody has easy access to Google.
Haha, okay, I get it 😂
Miranda rights (and your legal rights in general) should be recited by cops, reviewed annually in schools, and drilled into people at every opportunity. If you find yourself in cuffs, or even just approached by a cop on the street for a seemingly casual discussion, you may not be clear-headed and that stuff needs to be burned into your subconscious.
Speaking of which, it's Friday. Time for the weekly review (NSFW, language).
So you're essentially proposing arresting people for ignorance?
But that means uneducated people will be the most-likely to get arrested. By definition, no?
Sincerely, I believe most people believe they "know their rights".
The problem here is that you are working with an extremely tiny set of what you believe to be knowledge.
And your opinions flow from that.
You are probably unaware that police started as private forces meant to beat the living shit out of people who were protesting unfair labor conditions and the poverty that flowed from extreme concentration of wealth among few capitalists.
You probably don't know anything. You probably don't even know that slavery is related to how the justice system functions.
So it's time to shut up and go learn.
Might be that someone is innocent, and thus didn't read the 5th-8th amendments before going out and doing some dumb and illegal shit (read: they didn't).
Oh so have you read all of the law and regulations to see if you missed something you ought to know? It's all right there in Google!
Funny thing is OP before Miranda rights became a thing that was the general opinion.
FFS, how young are you that this thought wasn't immediately filtered as pure unadulterated horseshit prior to posting it online.🤦🏼♂️
Stay in school, kids.