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I was a police officer for twenty-five years and made hundreds of car stops and completed quite a few searches, so listen to this retired patrol commander:
In the simplest of terms, if a police officer asks your permission to do something, they are not allowed to do this thing without your permission or consent.
Just say the words, I do not consent to a search without a warrant.
I’ve heard dozens of stories that go something like this:
Family buys home or rents apartment. Before they can officially move in, somebody rolls in with a sleeping bag and claims “squatters rights”. It takes months/years to evict them and costs thousands of dollars.
How is this legal? The squatter isn’t on the lease or deed to the home. They’re trespassing – why do they get any rights at all? Shouldn’t the police show up within hours to throw their ass out?
According to the American Psychological Association, “There is no evidence that any pattern of physiological reactions is unique to deception. An honest person may be nervous when answering truthfully and a dishonest person may be non-anxious.”
Polygraphs don’t actually detect anything meaningful except that the person is under stress – and simply being given a polygraph is sufficient to trigger the stress.
Even the creator of the machines stated that they were bunk. They’re purely a prop for interrogators.
The main reason this case was overturned was because in 2005 the Montgomery County District Attorney effectively promised never to prosecute Cosby for raping Andrea Costand (through a public press release saying he was not going to prosecute Cosby), believing that there was no way he could get a conviction, and seeking to give her some justice by helping her when she sued him for the assault in civil court.
