liberties are easily surrendered,
impossible to reclaim (Author)
This blog reviews various criminal methods for extracting / fabricating confessions, which are common, if not standard operational procedures across the policing industry in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Britain. It also discusses strategies for the arrested [abducted] citizen in defending against police criminality / violence during the isolated interrogation process.
Police Abduction – Getting the Language and Reality Correct
When objectively analysing policing methods, power and criminality, the arrest and seclusion of citizens in police ‘custody’, is in fact a form of sanctioned abduction. The person being arrested generally has no warning of his arrest and once arrested or snatched is often held incommunicado.
These abduction conditions – shackled, disoriented and gagged – apply to alleged drug kingpin and jay walker alike. He literally disappears, and is at the total mercy of his police captors – very much like abduction. This is the absolute power police possess over citizens.
These abduction conditions – shackled, disoriented and gagged – apply to alleged drug kingpin and jay walker alike. He literally disappears, and is at the total mercy of his police captors – very much like abduction. This is the absolute power police possess over citizens.
Any [working class] citizen anywhere can be arrested and abducted at the slightest resistance or provocation towards the Establishment and police. This circumstance has long been a reality and we can view 1000s of real life ‘legal abductions’, along with blatant criminal acts of police beatings, (aka "excessive or unecessary force") and homicides on video streaming sites such as LiveLeak and YouTube. Type in the key words “police brutality and execution” in the Google videos search bar to get 10000s of hits.
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the disclosed incidence of police brutality
really represents less than 1 per cent of actual incidence
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The taping of the infamous Rodney King bashing by LA Cops was perhaps the first modern example of how mass media can reveal the true nature of policing. People viewing countless similar videos of police violence need to understand the statistical math behind the incidence of taped vs. untaped police criminality as follows.
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion" (C.P. Snow)
Extrapolating the Real Incidence of Police Brutality
To claim and maintain police bashings are ‘isolated cases’ is exceptionally idiotic. Yet this is the standard refrain by the Establishment (along with the bulk of the sychophantic corporate media) whenever they are forced to defend exposed indefensible police violence, with the refrain often framed like this:
“the assault against the suspect was an isolated case and is not representative of the hard working police offices of this State yadah yadah yadah”.
Curious is it not how this defence is always invoked for repeated ‘isolated’ cases of police savagery and citizen homicide.
The only circumstance “isolated” in police violence / criminality is the fact beatings and executions are caught on video / surveillance tape. Now extrapolate the isolated incidence of taped police beatings to the incidence of untaped police beatings in the secret seclusion of police custody. An abundantly conservative extrapolation would be x 1000 per district. That is for every police beating recorded and released into the public sphere another 1000 police assaults go unrecorded and unpunished for that district. This ratio of incidence is not unlike the detection of speeding drivers, e.g. for every motorist the speed camera captures, 10 000 go unchecked. When viewed this way police beatings are not so “isolated” as people tend to believe or claim.
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| Kelly Thomas literally beaten to death by US cops, who of course walked! |
Common Myths of Australian Policing and Citizens Rights
Before this blog addresses the main topic of the interrorgation process, several of the more persistent myths of policing will be dispensed with.
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what other job pays a heavily armed person
to bash, shoot and abduct civilians...the mob!
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Police are empowered to detain, search and arrest any citizen on mere suspicion and whim – warrants for arrest are not required. Formal bench warrants for arrest usually issue from a judge involving an existing / ongoing matter presided over by the same judge.
As with arrests, home and car searches can be conducted without warrants on the flimsiest of evidence e.g. officer suspicion, incompetence, prejudice and informants. Searching homes are a little more complex generally requiring paperwork, however in most States and Territories police can raid any civilian domicile at their ‘discretion’ on the suspicion the property is linked to unlawful activities. Remember suspicion is all that is needed, not evidence! Suspicion includes hoax calls from pranksters / enemies and typical police bungling. Murderous police raids on"wrong houses" is now standard collateral damage in the US. Stastically, a home owner is more likely to be shot dead by bungling rambo cops, than by a burglar.
When a spouse, usually the female, complains her partner has made threats and or perpetrated violence, the attending police can literally shoot the suspect spouse dead. In this situation, the man is typically ripped from his home and tossed to the kerb, forbidden (by restraining order) to return to his family and home under the pain of jail. Many men have died or been seriously wounded on their front lawn in resistance to this form of police 'service'. Many surviving family members have deeply regretted inviting the blue devil into their home. In the US, placing a 911 domestic disturbance call for police, can literally be the most dangerous, if not dumbest call you could ever make. Paul Craig Roberts, from the Institute for Political Economy explains: "police are more dangerous to the public than are criminals".
Myth of the Right to a Phone Call
The “one phone call” for police prisoners is a ‘privilege’ entirely dependent on the ‘good will’ of police. Beyond protocol, there is no explicit legislation dictating a police prisoner is legally entitled to a phone call prior to or during interrogation. The phone call, if granted, is permitted when it suits the police. If police believe ‘investigations’ or chances of prosecution will be diminished by allowing a prisoner to alert the outside to his captivity, the phone call will be denied or withheld until a confession is coerced or fabricated.
Myth of the Right to a Lawyer
Historically the fabled lawyer myth has been linked to the one phone call in the lore of “suspect rights”. Indeed arrested citizens generally have a right to have a lawyer present during the interrogation process. However the effectiveness of this right is dependent on 2 crucial factors: (1) the suspect is wealthy or connected enough to have a lawyer on call, and (2) much interrogation and police malfeasance can easily be conducted before / after the phone call and the arrival / departure of the lawyer. The vast majority of victims of police fabrication and torture are the working class poor, who logically have very little access to expensive lawyers.
Access to lawyers, third parties and the fabled phone call are ultimately controlled by police. Police often claim in court proceedings following an arrest: “the defendant waived his right to both a phone call and lawyer”. Ninety nine per cent of the time the ‘soft-spoken sincere’ police officers are believed over the dishevelled and disoriented defendant.
Myth of Burden of Proof in Proving Guilt
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You're not leaving here with all your teeth
unless you confess. Remember there's not a
fucking thing you or anyone can do to stop us!
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| Kelly Thomas before he was bashed to death by homicidal cops |
INTERRORGATIONS: Coercion, Conspiracy, Fabrication
This section will be organised in 2 parts: (a) the abduction and interrogation of the sole citizen; and (b) the abduction and interrogation of 2 or more citizens. Interrogation ‘techniques’ by police tend to vary according to the number of the suspects detained ie. multiple vs individual suspects.
The Sole Prisoner Dilemma
The major disadvantage a sole prisoner encounters during police captivity is he is completely isolated and alone. There is no ally to corroborate his version of the events during the arrest, and likewise no ally to provide psychological support during his captivity. The sole advantage of the sole prisoner is he does not face the risk of the so called “prisoner dilemma” where an alleged accomplice treacherously exonerates himself by blaming the other.
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the only thing that was ever isolated about
police brutality is it is captured on video
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When a sole prisoner is transported to a police station for interrogation, he is searched and isolated. During this stage, the prisoner is intentionally kept ignorant to the circumstances of his arrest in order to disorient and intimidate. Once the prisoner enters the police station, procedure requires his arrival be logged. This is a crucial police procedure as the timeframe of a person's arrest can have vital repercussions for the prosecution case. Generally, police prisoners are properly time logged and ‘processed’. Occasionally though, prisoner log books are falsified or the log procedure is bypassed altogether. This is a common modus operandi by police detectives who having ‘captured’ “a person of interest” and possessing no evidence or reason other than suspicion, prejudice, incompetence or career incentive conspire to torture a confession from the prisoner. Falsifying the timeframe of police captivity by shortening the interrogation period is crucial for the success of the intimidation / torture method. For example, a citizen is really snatched by police at 5pm and conveyed to the police station at 5.30pm, his arrival is falsely recorded as 9.30pm allowing police 4 hours to intimidate and terrorise the victim. The prisoner ‘confesses’ at 10.15pm, which then appears the prisoner was interrogated for less than an hour before “spilling the beans”. Should the citizen later defend the charges claiming duress during the 5 hour interrogation, his testimony will be disputed / undermined by police log records falsely listing his arrival as 9.30pm rather than 5pm.
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| to serve and protect...ourselves |
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| Too little, too late. The wanton apathy and gullibility of citizens has allowed police farces everywhere to achieve near invincibility. |
The Prisoner Dilemma (2 or more citizens)
Every interrogation method of police criminality against the sole prisoner applies to ‘accomplices’. The main strategic difference between the sole and accomplice prisoner is the police can manipulate one accomplice against the isolated other. There are several deceptive techniques police typically deploy against accomplices isolated from the other.
The most prominent and effective of these stratagems is to turn a prisoner against his accomplice by claiming prisoner b. has blamed prisoner a. This divide and capitulate ploy is generally conducted as follows:
Two or more arrested ‘co-suspects’ are isolated into separate interrogation rooms. The police proceed to work prisoner a. over in concert with police working over prisoner b. in a separate room. Soon the police have assessed the most vulnerable member of the alleged accomplices is prisoner a. Prisoner a. is then confronted with the lie his mate, prisoner b. is blaming everything on him including the Crucifixion of Christ. For the juvenile, adolescent and uninitiated citizen this deception typically provokes anger and fear, compelling the prisoner to reciprocate the alleged treachery with counter-accusations. The police win and all accomplices lose.
A variation of driving a wedge between accomplices sees prisoner a. being told prisoner b. has confessed and the “gig is up.” Because prisoner b. has 'confessed' the judge will show leniency, but the same leniency will be denied to prisoner a. he is warned or bluffed, if he continues to hold out.
A brutal variation of the two prisoner dilemma is to beat the one to compel the other to capitulate. This method is particularly effective when siblings are captives or the accomplices are a couple (in this case the male partner is beaten to compel the hysterical female into submission). Children of the suspects can also be threatened to coerce 'cooperation' (children don’t actually have to be present as the police threat of harm at some later date is powerful enough).
Stages of Police Interrogation
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| Humans and animals are all fair game for serial killing cops |
Universally, coercive police interrogations typically follow the 3 stages:
- Psychological violence or threats
- Inducements or bargaining
- Physical violence or torture
This stage is typically marked with threats of violence, (including actual death threats) threats of heavy jail sentences, threats of public shame, threats of ruined relationships (e.g. never see your children again), threats against other family members (e.g. drag frail relatives to the police station for interrogation or midnight raid their homes), threats of deportation for non-Australian born suspects, threats of sub-contracted violence including rape (e.g. placed in unsupervised cells with violent criminals).
The PV method is particularly effective with younger males, who from a lack of experience are more responsive to threats than older experienced males. Essentially when police threaten their captive they are seeking to extort compliance / submission through the fear of violence. Standover men (thugs) operate in much the same way, when confronting a shop merchant by offering great violence against victim resistance.
Verbatim PV Threat Samples by Police: each sample is hyperlinked to a police brutality video
Many of these expletive laden threats are issued en route to the police station, following the initial arrest of the citizen. This is because police understand the prisoner at this stage, is disoriented, shocked and most vulnerable to stress and manipulation. Again this is very effective with younger males and juveniles, who are easily overwhelmed by the abduction and the threats that immediately follow.
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| "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." Orwell |
Responding to PV
- Remain calm – don’t panic
- Remain silent – don’t goad the police
- Act intimidated even though you may not be
- Listen carefully to the content of the threats – watch for inconsistencies
- Watch carefully the body language of the police issuing threats – identify which officer is the alpha goon
- Commit to memory the id of the police and the threat content
- Commit to memory the timing and manner of the arrest
In extreme cases of violent police harassment – scream murder. Continue to scream murder until the police thugs desist. Be warned this desperate counter-measure may invite the abductors to violently subdue and gag the captive
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| clearly a case of repeatedly falling on a police baton |
Inducements
This phase is fairly
straightforward when a citizen as the sole suspect is being interrogated. It is
a lighter form of threats of violence, that is, in exchange for a confession
the police promise to ask the judge for leniency or pledge similar preposterous concessions.
Bargaining works well with the classic “good cop bad cop” routine, where bad
cop threatens violence and long jail time and good cop offers rewards and
softer penalties.
Verbatim Samples of Inducements by Police:
each sample is hyperlinked to a police brutality video
“We (police) can’t help you unless you help us”
each sample is hyperlinked to a police brutality video
“We (police) can’t help you unless you help us”
The line between threats and inducements can blur, for example, the deprivation of sleep. What separates these 2 interrogation tactics is the overt violence communicated in the message. Depriving a prisoner of sleep or medicines or clothes or food can be managed in a non-violent fashion by simply physically isolating the prisoner from accessing these ‘rights’. These rights are then bargained with the fatigued, famished, naked or sick prisoner in return for cooperation.
Responding to Inducements
- Remain calm
- Remain silent
- Do not bargain
- Do not believe
In cases where urgent medical assistance and or medication are denied, lie on the floor / bench and continuously scream for medical aid.
In isolated police station captivity, continuous screaming for rescue is the only counter-measure available for the abducted suffering police abuse. This is because screaming for help disrupts the police modus operandi of secluding prisoners in the “interview room” to quietly extract coerced confessions as they please. Although kicking and screaming may place the citizen at further risk of police brutality, it is in reality the only defence against torture in the local police station. This reality of absolute prisoner helplessness exemplifies the terrifying power the police wield against citizens.
Perhaps the most shocking aspect of prisoner torture by police is in spite of the 100 000s of recorded episodes of police brutality in the “interview room” and the growing list of wrongly convicted [framed] citizens over the decades, governments have done little to curb the godlike power enabling police to secretly brutalize and stitch citizens.
As with threats of violence and promises of reward, actual torture by police in the interrogation room signifies they possess little or no evidence in which to prosecute the citizen. Brutalizing ‘uncompliant’ prisoners into submission goes back hundreds if not thousands of years, and remains to this day the most effective way to extract confessions and 'forge' convictions.
"...confessions cannot be extracted with love. The fear of the police has to be kept alive - how else would you reduce crime?" Indian Police Officer
This fundamental torture component of ‘police work or policing’ continues to be shamelessly ignored by both academics and human rights orgs. There remain in the Australian community and institutions alike, 10 000s of surviving victims of police station torture. If even a small sample of these victims were to be surveyed, researchers would quickly establish a common modus operandi of police work that transcends jurisdictions, States and indeed Nations. The absurd paradox of police violence in the suburban station is such that incredulous high school students study the Inquisition and the barbaric methods used, while in the police station adjacent to the same school, citizens are being battered with phone books and zapped with cattle prods in the dungeon like cavities of police buildings.
Actual & Typical Samples of Torture by Police:
each sample is hyperlinked to a police brutality video
each sample is hyperlinked to a police brutality video
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| and who's gonna stop us! |
Responding to Police Brutality
Citizens subjected to police torture need to yell murder in response to every assault. Screaming and kicking makes it awkward, unpleasant and risky for the police thugs. Sucking in the blows and wincing softly achieves nothing, and in fact provokes the goons to intensify the beatings.
Citizens subjected to police torture need to yell murder in response to every assault. Screaming and kicking makes it awkward, unpleasant and risky for the police thugs. Sucking in the blows and wincing softly achieves nothing, and in fact provokes the goons to intensify the beatings.
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| we have the right to abduct and brutalise you - you have the right to bleed |
When Pigs Fly and Lie
In the introduction to this blog, the striking similarities linking police captivity with criminal abduction was emphasised. This incredible abduction power police possess over citizens is devastating not only due to police prerogative to arrest and detain citizens with any force required; it is also the “dark ages” circumstances in which police keep citizens captive.
When a citizen is snatched by police, he is more than immobilised, his connection with the world, community, family is literally shutdown. He is in fact a hostage to the State, totally beholden to his captives. Every human activity or bodily function a free man takes for granted such as eating, sitting, standing, sleeping, talking, urinating is now controlled by the arresting officers. Information from and to the outside world is filtered through a wall of police bureaucracy. The prisoner, like the abducted, is totally reliant on his police captors for all information concerning his immediate welfare and those close to him. Consequently, police exploit this period of prisoner incommunicado during interrogations by manipulating their hostage with lies and subterfuge.
A notoriously effective ‘skill’ in police interrogation is of course bluffing, and this is why completely isolating a prisoner is critical to the interrogation process. Whatever bluffs and ruses police deploy to manufacture confessions, the prisoner has no way of challenging the veracity of the claims.
Typical bluffs to disorient, disarm and deceive the prisoner are as follows:
each sample is hyperlinked to a police brutality video
Typical bluffs to disorient, disarm and deceive the prisoner are as follows:
each sample is hyperlinked to a police brutality video
Your wife is threatening suicide (this could also have an inverse effect)
The point is, under the deprived and desperate conditions of police captivity, officers can disgorge and contrive any amount of hogwash, which cannot be disproved by the trapped citizen. When the citizen prisoner remains unimpressed by such psych-war antics, detectives may recruit colleagues to impersonate (in person and or by phone) witnesses, victims, lawyers etc to backup the bluffs.
Ratio of Prisoner Submission to Police Interrogation Duress and Torture
Ratio of Prisoner Submission to Police Interrogation Duress and Torture
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| he's still conscious punch him again Officer Swine |
Percentile extrapolation of non-recorded incidence of police brutality against recorded could reasonably be postulated at a factor of 1000 undisclosed to 1 disclosed per district, or the disclosed incidence of police brutality really represents less than 1 per cent of actual incidence.
- Understand police are the enemy and vice versa
- Remain as calm as possible
- Never argue or bargain, including idle banter
- Never volunteer info other than required by law i.e. name and address
- Assume every police claim, threat, promise is a lie / bluff / scam
- Assume co-prisoners are as strong and loyal as you are
- Never believe police reports of betrayal / bargains by co-prisoners
- If betrayed by co-prisoners remain steadfast, reciprocating betrayal serves police interests only. This rule cannot be emphasised enough!
- Never underestimate police malfeasance, deviousness and treachery
- Never misinterpret police 'kindness' (good cop) as authentic gestures
- In addition to protecting the wealthy and elite, understand the mission of police is to apportion blame & dispense harm and grief
- Understand police are the enemy and vice versa
Cardinal Rules in Police Abductions and Interrorgations
Trapped with the Criminal Filth
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| Scream murder - dont make it easy for the filth! |
When trapped in a cell / room with thug police, collapse to the floor (if possible) and assume a defensive curl position (as per illustrations below). A curled / bunched position limits the body surface area in which the police can attack. A curled / bunched position also assists in defending the vital organs, while compelling the police to attack the exposed areas of the back, buttocks, legs and forearms. Bruises / tissue damage on these body areas are more indicative of abuse, and harder to explain than the colloquial “falling down the stairs / self-inflicted” and other preposterous 'accidents' typically posited by police in concealing prisoner abuse.
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THE DOOMADGEE MURDER AND THE
In 2004 an Indigenous Australian, Mulrunji Doomadgee, was literally bashed to slow agonizing death in a police cell by Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley. Mulrunji died on a cell floor. He was taken to hospital, and following a post-mortem, the coroner reported, Mulrunji ribs x 4 were broken, and his liver ruptured from the'force' of the body punches from Hurley.
Hurley was initially exonerated (as most criminal cops are), then the victim's community rioted for justice. The shameless state government re-investigated the murder, compromised and declared Hurley was responsible for Mulrunji's death (NB: police are never charged with murder, it is always a case of excessive force causing unlawful death). Hurley, with a gang of police buddies, appealed, leading again to his obscene exoneration!
"Doomadgee's ribs beaten till they snapped!"
Hurley remains an active member of the police force in Queensland,
while Doomadgee remains very dead!
Hurley remains an active member of the police force in Queensland,
while Doomadgee remains very dead!
Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley (left) and the man he 'bravely' punched to death in a Queensland police cell 2004. The victim's liver was cleaved in 2 from the force of the assaults. Hurley remains an active proud 'member' of the police farce!
Police laugh as a man dies in a puddle in front of the station
In spite of the headline below, they get off scott free
BELOW IS THE FINAL IMAGE OF KELLY THOMAS,
A HOMELESS MAN BEATEN TO DEATH BY 6 COPS IN 2011
BELOW IS THE VIDEO RECORDING POLICE BEATING TO DEATH KELLY THOMAS: LISTEN TO KELLY'S FINAL HARROWING CRIES FOR HIS "DAD" AS HE SLIPS INTO A COMA & THEN DEATH
NOTE ALSO THE HELPLESSNESS OF THE BYSTANDERS -
THEIR INABILITY TO RESCUE KELLY FROM THOSE HOMICIDAL SWINE IS
TESTAMENT TO THE FEAR AND TERROR THE POLICE WIELD OVER THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE
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