Here's my whole problem with the way law enforcement operates: The way they are trained, and hence their attitude and operating procedure is based around using whatever means possible, including flat out lying, to get you to freely give up your 4th and 5th amendment rights. Take a look at some common questions that law enforcement officers typically ask, followed by the literal translation that gets to heart of the purpose of the question:
"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
-"please confess to committing the infraction so there is no way you can fight it in court"
"Mind if I take a look in your car?"
-"you probably don't realize it's against the 4th amendment for me to search without a warrant, so let's see if I can get around that inconvenient little document"
"Why not, do you have something to hide?"
-"let's see if I can intimidate you into giving up you 4th amendment rights"
"Did you know that I can use your refusal to allow a search as grounds for a warrant?"
-"intimidation didn't work, let's try lying"
These are just a few commonly used and despicable tactics that law enforcement applies. There are many, many more, and their whole purpose is to get people to give up their constitutionally protected rights, mainly to avoid having to do real police work, such as finding, collecting, and processing actual physical evidence, and doing it through proper channels- such as a legal search warrant.
Once perhaps, long ago, law enforcement existed to keep law abiding people safe from non-law abiding people. That's where the motto "Protect And Serve" comes from. Now however, the basic premise behind law enforcement agencies has become to do whatever is necessary to catch and incarcerate as many offenders as possible. The Bill of Rights is a hindrance to that goal, and so the training program is based around ways to get around those rights. That basic premise to me is just morally and ethically wrong. Too many millions of Americans have given their lives to protect those rights, and I view it as a direct insult to those heroes and their sacrifice to devise ways to set aside those rights.
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