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Bluffing

I'll keep this short and sweet. Here is a pro tip that a law enforcement officer no longer knows what they are doing, has 'run out of knowledge', 'has reached the end of their training tape'. 


If you are reviewing body cam footage, watching a video or reading a police report or a Use of Force report and you hear/ read these phrases;



-"You want to go to jail?" 


-"If I come back here, someone is going to jail."



These phrases are a 'tell', just like in poker. It's a bluff AND this is the space in time that officers will slip into constitutional violations and/ or take things personally instead of keeping it professional. I know it sounds funny but you can take this one to the bank.

 
 
 

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