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A big chunk of system funding comes from defendants’ families. By and large this means women are paying thousands of dollars to get the men they love legal representation, reduced sentences, and freedom.

The system devours the investment capital of poor Americans and is one of the major reasons the poor stay poor. Elected officials love to describe how much money they pour into poor neighborhoods and community services. They never, ever, discuss how much is drained out by the criminal justice system. Ladies, the best way to keep your savings in the bank and your folding money in your purse is to keep your men away from cops and out of jail. So read on and prosper.

electronic plantation. This is the lifetime restriction on jobs and opportunities that derives from the instant accessibility of arrest information. Increasing use of background checks and widespread access to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the federal government’s database of every arrest made in the United States and its territories, means that the record of your arrest follows you around for life. Even if your arrest record is expunged or sealed or adjudication is withheld or the charges were dismissed or you were acquitted at trial, the arrest record is permanent. Worse, it’s easily accessible. Because employers tend to regard an arrest as tantamount to a conviction, a single arrest can deny you job opportunities forever. The electronic plantation restricts them to a lifetime of low-wage work once they’re free. Their only hope is to avoid the system long enough to grow up, get educated, and get on with their lives.——This destroyed one of the greatest features of American life: the opportunity to get a second chance. In the age of paper records, once you paid your debt to society, you were done. An arrest should not be a life sentence, but it is.

***(Same thing with all types of charges, survallence acts too)

Increasing use of background checks and widespread access to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), record of your arrest follows you around for life. Even if your arrest record is expunged or sealed or adjudication is withheld or the charges were dismissed or you were acquitted at trial, the arrest record is permanent. Worse, it’s easily accessible. Because employers tend to regard an arrest as tantamount to a conviction, a single arrest can deny you job opportunities forever.

Arrest proofing is all about not attracting police scrutiny and about allaying suspicions when you are confronted by police.

REASONABLE SUSPICION. This means that police suspect that you are about to commit a crime. Reasonable suspicion is the standard that allows police to stop you on the street or pull over your car. PROBABLE CAUSE. This means that it is more likely than not that a crime has already been committed. Police require probable cause to make an arrest.

The path from reasonable suspicion to felony conviction is a slippery slope down which you slide to jail and a ruined life with amazing speed. This book is all about staying off that slope.

The problem today is not—repeat not—that police are untrained, incompetent, racist, or corrupt. It’s precisely the opposite. Because police are better educated, better trained, and more tightly disciplined, you're more likely to get arrested than ever before. Police generally make lawful arrests and are accurate and truthful in their reporting and court testimony. Fewer mistakes mean fewer chances for an attorney to set you free.

Cops today are generally honest and practically ubiquitous, and they'll arrest you for tossing a gum wrapper!

THEIR DIRTY TRICKS

Nonetheless, police routinely use tactics, such as inciters, that provoke suspects to run, resist, and fight. Using these tactics is called putting a suspect in the trick box. They allow cops to transform a traffic ticket or misdemeanor into a felony arrest guaranteeing incarceration for suspects and impoverishment for the families who pay the legal fees, bail bonds, court costs, and probation charges. Although generally legal, these tactics are highly unethical.

these tricks, ranging from legal inciters to grossly illegal tactics suck as planting drugs and “throw-down” guns on innocent suspects. In ue gency Procedures,” you will even receive instruction on what to do in as worst of all circumstances—when you are being beaten or shot by police. If you survive, I’ll tell you what to do in the hospital before the bandages come off.

The criminal justice system often acts like a mindless bureaucracy and prosecutes cases that are absurd. For example, I once represented a 12-year-old boy who was arrested, and jailed, for throwing a pecan at a bus. charged with throwing a deadly missile, which is a third-degree felony, Today people like this nut-throwing kid are being shoved through the legal sausage grinder.

Had my client known how to behave around police officers, he probably would have received a warning and a trip home to his mother in the back of the cruiser. Instead, he got hammered.

Arresting organized crime figures is easy; prosecuting them is not. It requires interagency task forces, wiretaps, 24/7 surveillance, and gobs of government money. Almost all the investigations and arrests were made by the FBI, not local police. The state’s attorney (prosecutor), an elected official, seemed not to notice, amid a busy schedule of luncheons, speeches, and fundraisers, that the city was being run by a bunch of hoods.

police, in lieu of arrest, can issue a notice to appear, also known as a penal citation. This also requires the offenders to show up in front of a judge and get what’s coming to them (fines, anger management therapy, drug rehab, restitution, etc.) without getting busted and receiving a permanent arrest record and a lifetime sentence on the electronic plantation.

THREAT TO THE COMMUNITY. This is the most important criterion judges use in setting bail or allowing release on recognizance. Petty offenders, however, are generally only a danger to themselves. Once released, what a petty offender is most likely to do is go out and get stoned or drunk to forget all about it. This is stupid but hardly a threat. By arresting clueless petty offenders instead of citing them, police lump them together, in the minds of judges and the public, with career criminals and violent offenders. This justifies arresting them rather than issuing citations.

THEY NEED TO BE “IN THE SYSTEM.” this can be accomplished without arresting and jailing clueless offenders and consigning them to the electronic plantation for life.

CONDIGN PUNISHMENT. Most people think that an arrest and a few days in the sneezer is appropriate punishment for many of these offenses. however. When petty offenders are arrested and jailed, they have not yet been convicted of a crime in a court of law. They are presumed innocent. For this reason they’re called pretrial detainees.

Nowadays, many misdemeanor arrests are made for crimes for which there is no investigation, and none needed. For example, for possession of small quantities of drugs, what’s there to investigate? petty crimes during which there is no investigation and for which you generally get popped loose from jail in a few days, you can reasonably ask why you got arrested in the first place. It doesn’t have to be this way.

example1. sheriff of Bradford County, Florida, does things differently. When his officers cite someone for a misdemeanor, they write a ticket, take an electronic photo, and get a thumbprint. Then they cut the guy loose. That’s it. Offenders have to show up in front of a judge on their own and get what’s coming to them. Since they have not been jailed and had their funds extracted by attorneys and bondmen, they are more able to pay fines, court costs, and restitution. The sheriff has never been accused of being soft on crime or permissive about drugs. He simply thinks that petty offenders can be punished without raising taxes to build huge courthouses and jails and hiring armies of government employees to process them through these buildings. Judges breeze through the cases at high speed, like this: “You got caught with two joints in your car and driving with a suspended license. How do you plead? Guilty, not guilty, or nolo contendere?” “Uh, the third one, your honor, the no-low thing.” “You got your paperwork in order?”BYesnsits “See the clerk, pay the fine, and don’t let me see you in here again.” Bang. Punishing petty offenders without jailing them beforehand has the advantage to society of speedy justice at low cost and high volume. For offenders, the advantage is that they do not have to suffer unintended, nonjudicial punishments. Alas, it will take years for this enlightened state of affairs to exist widely. In the meantime, cops are arresting everybody for everything everywhere. The only solution is to arrest-proof yourself right now.

Quite a few clueless people think that keeping a joint or an open alcoholic beverage in the car or yelling at their women is no big deal. Other clueless types are disagreeable, uneducated, and barely literate. A few of them are crazy and should be in state hospitals, not state prisons. Too many clueless people who are arrested are entirely innocent of the crimes for which they are charged.——You are also clueless to some degree, even if you're a millionaire. How could you be otherwise? Unless you're a cop, judge, attorney, probation officer, or jailer, you can't understand the criminal justice system, which is its own world with its own rules. The system is astonishingly powerful. It’s backed by courts and legislatures, funded from state and local treasuries, and manned by government employees wearing guns. Its daily mission is to reach out and arrest someone—someone just like you. Even the most law-abiding citizens can, with one flash of temper, one slip of the tongue, or one wrong move, get arrested and have their lives ruined. The more successful you are, the more damaging an arrest is to your life and career. Real bad guys practically sleep through an arrest. To them jail is just a motel with bland food. To the law-abiding, arrest and incarceration are an unmitigated disaster. Being arrested and incarcerated is always humiliating and expensive. It can be dangerous. You do not want to go there.

Every day I see men who helped police arrest them, helped the state prosecute them, and didn’t even realize it. They confess for no reason; take pleas when they’re innocent; run, resist, and lie needlessly when arrested; screw up their probation; and in a hundred different ways contribute unnecessarily to their personal ruin. ——1. You owe no duty to the police to help them arrest you or increase the charges against you by confessing, acting out, or responding to inciters. You do have to give police your legal name when asked. You do not have to talk to police, answer questions, or agree to a vehicle search if doing so will result in your conviction. The state has lots of money, cops, and investigators. They are quite capable of putting you in jail without your help. Think about this. If they had all the information they needed to convict you, they wouldn’t ask any questions, would they? 2. You do not cease to be a citizen or to have rights even if you did the crime and are guilty as heck.

the power of the state to prosecute and punish was overwhelming. Most arrests have add-on charges—fleeing, resisting arrest, and battery on a law enforcement officer—that upgrade misdemeanors to felonies and result in long sentences and high legal fees.

Most of these add-ons can be avoided by knowing how to behave. Arguing and being obnoxious with cops, and it’s a sure way to slide into the slammer, usually with plenty of add-on charges to ensure a nice long stay. Too many people confuse attitude with their legal rights, personal style, and ethnic preferences in clothes, music, and behavior. I uncomplicate the issue by advising you simply to be polite for five freaking minutes while you're face-to-face with a cop. When I say “Shut the heck up!” I mean be quiet. I mean stop babbling, blah-blah-blahing, blathering, bloviating, chattering, kvetching, and going on and on and on. I do not mean clamming up and giving cops some attitude that makes them really want to arrest you.

You're worth real money when youre busted. For example, making phony IDs, the state gets paid more than $150 per day by the federal government for every day youre in custody, since the federal government does not have pretrial detention facilities, i.e., jails. One of my clients was tossed into a cell with 10 other federal inmates. That’s 11 inmates at $150 per day, or $1,650 per cell per day.

Understandably, officials think of jails as hotels that can be profitably filled. All the people around you—cops, guards, clerks, bailiffs, judges, lawyers, probation officers, social workers—are making a good living off you. Once arrested, you enter the criminal justice plantation. You're there to work, that gets state and city employees paid.

All you get is a place to flop and crummy food. Like a slave, you're branded with your owner’s mark. Your fingerprints, case number, social security number, photograph, and description (and, soon, DNA) are filed.

Even when youre released on probation, you're still on the plantation. You and your home can be searched at any time. You have to sign away the right to a warrant and judicial review of searches as a condition of probation. If probation officers so decide, they can administer drug tests and strip-search and body-cavity search you at any time. Probation ofhcers are not, repeat not, social workers. They're outdoor jailers. And you're paying them! Big dollars monthly in probation charges!

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you can wander into the criminal justice plantation even without getting arrested! field interrogation reports (FI) Patrol cops are required to make notes about everyone they talk to when they respond to a call or make a street stop. They note your name and address, your appearance, what youre wearing, and where you're going.Let’s say you encounter police. They stop their cruiser, call you over, ask for your ID, and quiz you about where you live and where youre going—all typical questions whose answers go into FI reports. Let’s suppose you're wearing a red T-shirt, blue jeans, and a baseball cap. All this gets noted down into the computer system becomes accessible to every cop in the city

if a crime is committed later in your neighborhood, by a guy about your size wearing a red T-shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap? You can bet the police will be at your doorstep within minutes. (Remember, you told them where you lived.) Now the cops are not cruising. They're investigating a recent crime and looking for a fleeing suspect. They're tense; they're edgy. They can arrest and hold you as a suspect. Even if charges are later dropped, you will have an arrest record. Some of the police problems that minorities attribute to racism are actually routine police use of FI cards. You are likely to get arrested if you YY encounter police and become the subject of an FI card YY live in a neighborhood where crimes are being committed 2» somewhat resemble the description of a criminal

Stay out of juvenile detention! It’s the criminal justice plantation for kids. Worse, in many states there’re no bail bonds for kids, no notice to appear (see page 14) in lieu of arrest, and no release into your parents’ custody. Get busted, and you're going in. Inside there’s generally no rehabilitation, no work, nothing except jail cells and jailers. When you go in, you'll be strip-searched. If the corrections officers think you're carrying drugs, they will force open your mouth and poke around in there. The officers will not be concerned about you as a person. Their job is to process your body through the system. They care only about getting food in, waste out, grunge showered off, and jumpsuits changed as per regulation. Mostly they care about keeping you locked up until a judge decides what to do with you. If you become sufficiently annoying, they will strap you into a detention chair and lock you in a soundproof cell so you can scream your head off without bothering anyone else. Juvenile detention is one of the most dangerous places in your city or county. Some of the kids there will be stone killers who would very much enjoy cutting out your stomach and intestines with a plastic shiv. Other kids will be florid, unmedicated psychotics, which is medical jargon for saying that they're stark raving mad. Inside, kids yell day and night. They bang on their cells. The stronger ones attack the younger and weaker ones. The only difference between juvenile detention and adult jail is that in juvie the guards are usually not armed and are somewhat less likely than adult correctional officers to beat you when you misbehave.

an arrest like this dumps you onto the social services plantation, judge will order you into the custody, or at least the care, of social workers and their contractors. These people can ruin your life trying to help you.

Next time you hear “takes a village(of social workers) to raise a modern child", you should run, preferably screaming as you run, as far away as possible. _Many well-intentioned people, especially those whose income, education, and jobs mean that their children will never encounter social service workers, imagine that probation officers, juvenile judges, public defenders, guardians ad litem, caseworkers, foster parents, and government psychologists are like kindly schoolmarms and wise old preachers who gently guide wayward youth to truth, enlightenment, and the American way. I work with these people every day. They try hard. They want to do the right thing. All of them, without exception, are overwhelmed with cases; underpaid; and restricted by a web of complex, confusing, and frequently contradictory bureaucratic procedures. All of them together, the entire village, cannot care for children as well as the most mediocre parents. Getting into the social services plantation sometimes means getting help. Often, however, it means getting your brain fried with drugs and then being dumped into juvenile detention facilities and foster homes.

Always it means that the state will gather an enormous dossier of information on you. medical reports and “expert” opinions of your neuroses, psychoses, hang-ups, allergies, food preferences, IQ, and personality, will follow you around for life. You'll be officially certified as damaged goods. You'll be in the computer, in the system, for life, even if you never actually get arrested.

The social services system and its affiliate(public schools), are obsessed with definitions of what is normal. This definition is narrowed every day by new studies, new expert opinions, and batteries of ever more subtle psychological tests. Anyone outside the acceptable range of behaviors is, by definition, abnormal and subject to state intervention, supervision, and labeling. I call this the tyranny of normalcy.

Years ago, children who got distracted, ran around a lot, slept very little, and did several things at once were called jittery, pesky, or a handful. Now such children are defined as suffering from attention-deficit disorder. Supposedly, nearly 10 percent of American children are so diseased. Most are given powerful psychoactive drugs. Some of these, like Ritalin, are related to amphetamines. Others are tranquilizers, antipsychotics, and neurotransmitter inhibitors, which were never approved for use by children and whose long-term effects are unknown. All of these drugs, without exception, are restricted, scheduled narcotics. Many are addictive, and all are sold illegally on the street. Possession of any of them without the prescription in your possession will land you in jail. When adults take tranquilizers for a decade or more, they are considered addicts. When children take them, they are considered normal. Of course the kids don’t complain. They’re drugged.

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The social services plantation is staffed predominantly by women. Its attitudes are female, and, most importantly, its definition of normalcy is female. For young men, this is a disaster. The system defines many innate male behaviors as abnormal and sick.

For example, the social services plantation’s female overseers (teachers, social workers, counselors, psychologists) stigmatize boys for fighting, throwing and kicking things, teasing, resisting authority, etc. Yet these things are what little boys do. These behaviors are the play that become, in a man, fighting and hunting skills. Of course, such behaviors need to be socialized and controlled, since we are no longer Neolithic hunter-gatherers, but they are not abnormal or sick. All of us have caveman DNA and behaviors. They require patience and parenting, not drugs and the lockup.

The social services plantation is the farm team for the criminal justice plantation. Cops, schoolteachers, and social workers are the gatekeepers to this village, but it’s a village of the damned. Guys, unless your own home is unbearable, you want to stay out of this place. You want to arrestproof yourself to stay free and unprocessed until you can grow up enough to figure yourself out.

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microphones and wireless uplinks for voice and data installed in cars, “black box” data recorders that track your location, speed, brake use—and much, much more. Law enforcement officers can get search warrants that allow them to turn on the car’s microphone and listen and record conversations inside the vehicle without the driver’s and passengers’ knowledge. Law enforcement is now able to interrogate your car. San Francisco wants to require drivers to pull into tax collectors’ offices, where their boxes will be plugged in and a “mileage tax” will be levied. ——None of this has anything to do with traffic safety and law enforcement; it has everything to do with the state sticking its digital fingers into your wallet.

surveillance drones are becoming smaller, stealthier, and more affordable. These hover overhead, read your tag, and track your movements. License plate scanners mounted on police cruisers and light poles can signal police automatically which vehicles’ drivers have warrants, suspended licenses, unpaid tickets, and other administrative offenses. GPS chips located in cell phones, laptops, and navigational systems can be tracked, sometimes with a warrant, sometimes without. Computerized ticketing systems write citations automatically for red light infractions and speeding. No cops are required.

Many poor people do not have computers, do not use the Internet, and have no idea how much they are affected by these innovations. Readers, this is the most important point in this book—computers, highspeed data transmission, and the Internet have changed everything. They are the reason you have to avoid cops and avoid arrest more than ever. Because of computers, arrest records follow you everywhere, forever. You can never escape past screwups and start over. There is no clean slate in the era of computers. You can never pay your debt to society because society, with its computers, never forgets and never forgives. This slavery to your past due to computerized record keeping is what I call the electronic plantation.——your arrest records will be transmitted to computers around the world. Some of these computers belong to government law enforcement agencies, others to private companies that collect personal information and sell it to prospective employers, lenders, credit card companies, and landlords. via the Internet, any employer, school, or landlord can pay $40 or less and discover that you have been arrested. Major corporations love background checks. They’re not only not hiring people who have slipups in their past; they’re actually laying off employees who have even a returned check or an unpaid traffic ticket.