Sovereign Immunity!

Police or Law Enforcement are allowed "To Use Deception" and get away with it under Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, which is a legal doctrine whereby a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution, strictly speaking in modern texts in its own courts. A similar, stronger rule as regards foreign courts is named state immunity. In addition, It is a judicial doctrine that prevents the government or its political subdivisions, departments, and agencies from being sued with out its consent. The doctrine stems from the ancient English principle that the monarch can do no wrong.

However, If you lie to an Officer, it can be a Crime and each violations carries a punishment of up to six months in county jail and fines of up to $1,000, Read More. If you lie about something that isn't trivial while giving such testimony, you can be charged with perjury. Elements of Perjury and Aggravated Perjury When dealing with the police in a investigation you typically aren't under oath, so you cannot commit perjury by lying to them. However, you have likely committed another crime such as Hindering an investigation.

Never Talk to the Police Without an Attorney if the police are investigating a crime and they want to talk with you about it. However, you should be thoroughly respectful to them, but you should make it clear that you have no intention of speaking with them without your Attorney.

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There are Laws in 38 states that plainly allow citizens to openly film the police in public. However, there are 13 states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington that have wiretap laws that prohibit citizens from secretly recording police. These laws are sometimes referred to as “two-party” consent laws but, technically, require that all parties to a conversation must give consent before the conversation can be recorded. However, I suspect and fear this wiretap laws is more to protect the Officer of doing something wrong. Read More.

If the consent of one party is required, you can record a conversation if you’re a party to the conversation. If you’re not a party to the conversation, you can record a conversation or phone call provided one party consents to it after having full knowledge and notice that the conversation will be recorded. Under Federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d) requires only that one party give consent. In addition to this Federal statute, thirty-eight (38) states and the District of Columbiahave adopted a “one-party” consent requirement. Nevadahas a one-party consent law, but Nevada’s Supreme Court has interpreted it as an all-party consent law.

Tennessee's wiretapping law is a "one-party consent" law. Tennessee makes it a crime to intentionally intercept any wire, oral or "electronic communication" to overhear or record a phone call or conversation unless one party consents to the conversation. The law defines an "electronic communication" as "any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by the aid of wire, radio, electromagnetic, photooptical or photoelectronic facilities." Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-6-303. If you are operating in Tennessee, you should always get the consent of at least one party before recording an in-person conversation or telephone call. In addition to subjecting you to criminal prosecution, violating the Tennessee wiretapping statute can expose you to a civil lawsuit for actual damages, punitive damages, and reasonable attorney's fees, by an injured party. Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-603. Read More.

Federal Court Rules Cops Can't Arrest You for Secretly Filming Them in a victory against Boston’s police commissioner and district attorney, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a Massachusetts law used by Massachusetts police to target people who secretly recorded them was unconstitutional. Read More and almost every court to consider the issue has determined that the First Amendment gives you the right to record (pictures, video, and audio) police officers in public while they are performing their duties. But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to record if you’re doing so surreptitiously, interfering with the officer, or otherwise breaking the law.

Filing a False Report is illegal when you knowingly make a false report of a crime (misdemeanor or felony) to a peace officer, to someone employed to accept crime reports, or to a prosecutor under Penal Code Section. However, there is no law protecting you from their lies during their investigation or integrations which they do.

The laws would make it illegal for a person over the age of 18 to "intentionally misrepresent their age in online communications with a person they reasonably believe to be under 18 years of age," with the intent of meeting in the real world. However, there is no law I'm aware of that protects you from the other person's intentional misrepresentation of their age to you with the same intent of meeting you in the real world. Here, I've seen and heard about where Officers under false pretenses, have done just this and any other time, this would be called entrapment.

In general, you do not have to talk to law enforcement officers (or anyone else), even if you do not feel free to walk away from the officer, you are arrested, or you are in jail. You cannot be punished for refusing to answer a question ( This is untruthful as they will make it harder on you, may arrest you under false pretense, turn their backs on you, or delay you for excessive amount of time). It is a good idea to talk to a Attorney before agreeing to answer questions by the police. Keep in mind here, "Anything you say may be used against you," and will later on.

You can get a copy of your police records. You have the right to ask for a copy of records the police have about you. This is called a 'subject access request'. You might need a subject access request if you move to another country.

Is it illegal to be disrespectful to a police officer? "Contempt of cop" is law enforcement jargon in the United States for behavior by people towards law enforcement officers that the officers perceive as disrespectful or insufficiently deferential to their authority. It is a play on the phrase contempt of court, and not an actual offense. But you will see officers pushing this hard at times because they preceive you as the guilty party first, may arrest you on false basis, Detain you for their own reasons call Suspect, Person of Interest, or Waited for Questioning in something.

This Lie About Recording Police Was Exposed on Camera

March 11th 2017

By:

Willie Burnley Jr.

A few weeks ago, Jesse Bright was working as an Uber driver one Sunday afternoon when he was pulled over by police in Wilmington, North Carolina. As Bright turned his phone on the officers and begun recording, he was told that a "new law" prohibited such activity and if he did not stop, he would be arrested. There was a problem for the police, though: such a law did not exist and Bright, who was also full-time criminal defense lawyer and driving with Uber to help pay off school loans, knew it.

The exchange between Bright and Wilmington police Sgt. Kenneth Becker got heated when Bright started filming.

The Washington Post outlined the details:

“Hey, bud, turn that off, okay?” Becker said.

“No, I’ll keep recording, thank you,” Bright responded. “It’s my right.”

“Don’t record me,” the police sergeant said. “You got me?”

“Look,” Bright said, “you’re a police officer on duty. I can record you.”

“Be careful because there is a new law,” Becker said. “Turn it off or I’ll take you to jail.”

“For recording you?” the video shows Bright asking Becker. “What is the law?”

A tense exchange followed, with Becker telling Bright to step out of his car, calling him “a jerk,” then warning him that he “better hope” officers didn’t find something in his vehicle.

Bright continued to record, saying, “I know my rights.”

“I hope so,” said Becker, the police sergeant. “I know what the law is.”

“I know the law,” Bright said. “I’m an attorney, so I would hope I know what the law is.”

“And an Uber driver?” Becker asked.

Police officers said that Bright had just picked up a client from a drug house and eventually searched the passenger, Bright, and his car. They ultimately found nothing.

Bright said that he was hesitant to speak publicly about the incident, which occurred in late February, but was convinced to do so when he received no apology on behalf of the officers who he believed violated his rights.

An internal investigation has been launched into the matter by the Wilmington Police Department, according to a statement from the Wilmington police chief Ralph Evangelous. In the statement, Evangelous encouraged citizens to record the police:

“Taking photographs and videos of people that are in plain sight including the police is your legal right. As a matter of fact we invite citizens to do so when they believe it is necessary. We believe that public videos help to protect the police as well as our citizens and provide critical information during police and citizen interaction.”

The right to record police officers in public spaces has been upheld in court as constitutional in the past.

In February, a federal appeals court ruled that the public has the right to film the police, "subject only to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions." Several civil rights organizations, including the Americans Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have even created apps that allow citizens to record the police and immediately send the recordings to specific groups, people, or even upload it online.

It should be noted that when trying to hold police officers accountable in this fashion, it is important to record from a distance and not to interfere directly with any police work being done.