Hence the quotes around “alert.” I chose to keep my previous comment about accurate dog sniffs in order to address the question of “police dogs that react to weed even though the smell of weed is not illegal.” Inaccurate sniffs are a completely valid, but separate concern.

These should all be burned into everyone’s brain (even if some shitheads have made “Am I being detained?” into a joke, it is still valid).

With regard to refusing to answer questions and searches:

• Your right to remain silent must be actively expressed in order to exercise it. Simply being silent without active verbal exercise of that right can be interpreted as “confrontational behavior.”
• Depending on the circumstances, there are some questions that you are obliged to answer. If you are driving a car, you are required to produce your driver’s license. You may be required to identify yourself with name and birthdate, even if you are not driving a car.
• There are a couple of different kinds of search. One kind is a “pat down.” This is where the officer is allowed to feel over your clothes (not inside pockets) to check for weapons, and this generally does not require any probable cause or reasonable suspicion. Any other kind of search of person or property does require probable cause, or comes after an arrest. “I do not consent to any search.” If the officer is asking for your consent, they don’t have cause (yet).
• Be aware that you are only required to be Mirandized if the police are going to ask you questions about whatever situation they have you as a suspect or person of interest in. But you always have those rights, whether they have been read to you or not, and police may ask you questions which are “adjacent” to the situation without Mirandizing you - in the hopes that you simply offer incriminating information.

If the police want to talk to you, it’s Shut the Fuck Up Day.

Shit I thought that became the case when Illinois passed its recreational law.

Will police have to retire police dogs if they still react to weed?

Yes. Police dogs “alerting” on something that isn’t illegal, in a way that is indistinguishable from “alerting” on something that is illegal, are no longer qualified to be drug sniffers.

“Judge, jury, and executioner” isn’t a compliment.

That’s just endorsing Harris with extra steps.

It’s magick from the witches childless cat ladies.

When half a percent is SLASHING!!!

And if you work from home, make your office machine always have QoS priority.

Why do you need a 4x4 lifted 3 feet and you live in the suburbs?

Penis issue

I’m sure all those younger Americans won’t care one bit when their parents and grandparents can’t afford health insurance.

Nah, he’s just getting press in order to encourage someone else to do the dirty work, so he can go “See? I told you it would happen!”

“I push the envelope,” Giglio told Reuters, adding that he would never hurt anyone. “If I have to go to jail because somebody thinks I’m really a threat, oh well, so be it.”

Call his bluff.

It’s probably either in a yet-to-be-discovered bankers box at Mar-A-Lago, or sitting in an evidence locker after having been found in one.

The First Amendment doesn’t shield you from consequences.

Have you met SCOTUS?

You complete me.

Or because of the American bail system, can’t afford to pay 10% as essentially a fine.

Depends on the state. Illinois eliminated cash bail in 2023. You’re only held pending trial if you’re a threat to the community or a flight risk (to be determined at a hearing by a judge). A few other states have made changes to their bail laws to reduce the number of arrestees who are required to post cash bail as well.

Oh no, I guess it’s impossible for that to ever change.

Good thing you can add extensions from places other than the store.

https://www.regfiles.net/registry/extend-extension-manifest-v2-availability-registry