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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
This is all great, but is their a more diplomatic / less inflammatory way of saying “I don’t talk to police?” In most cases, it seems like statements like this only dare them to take it too far. Genuinely curious.
gpt
A criminal defense attorney I know says that she doesn’t answer investigatory questions.

The thing is, if a police officer says he smells weed in your car, there’s nothing you can do to stop him from searching your car, and he’s almost certainly going to search your car. He’s not saying that to give you an opportunity to talk your way out of things, he’s saying it to create a record to justify the search of your car. He‘s saying it so that, if your case goes to trial, his dash cam will show him saying, “I smell marijuana” before the search.

Now, if you’re certain that you have no contraband or anything that could be mistaken for contraband in your car (people have been arrested based on leaf litter that was mistaken for marijuana “shake”), it doesn’t really matter what you say. But if you actually have contraband, your sole interest should be in preserving as many of your rights as possible, even if it seems churlish.