Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What t

by Wes Denham and Dale C. Carson

Book Overview

Explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on charges - which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556526377
• ISBN13: 9781556526374
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A primer on the justice industry in america

We live in a police state. Digest that. Suppress your need to think you are protected by provisions in the Bill of Rights of the american constitution, that cops themselves obey the law, that you as an individual are safe from abuse by the bounty hunters of the american plantation system, or simply because you think you have committed no crime. Cops form the input system for a self-perpetuating constellation of courts, jails, prisons, probation, rehab services ... This is industrial strength oppression. Cops are employed to get you into this system, to keep all its employees working steadily. The US has a greater percentage of its population in jails than any other country. This is profitable for corporations. It will never stop. You must not think of a cop or anyone else employed by this predatory system in the same way you think of other people. They are functionaries of a machine system. They get ego satisfactions from controlling people. For example, the police in WWII Paris helped the german GESTAPO round up french patriots and non-aryans for transport (from a site along the railway line to the east of the city) to extermination camps. During that same war, american cops rounded up japanese-americans to send to prison camps here. You get the picture; they will just do what they are told to do. If it involves brutality, no problem. Using provocation or deceit to augment his arrest totals is no moral problem for a cop. Remember, they have backup; you don't. You are virtually helpless but for the priceless bits of advice in ARREST-PROOF YOURSELF.

They're not here to help

This is an essential guide for everyone--it doesn't matter what your previous encounters with law enforcement have been. Carson explains that in the world of criminal justice, it's all a numbers game: how many arrests can the beat cop make? how many tickets can he write? how many convictions can the prosecutor get? how can the city/county/state make money off the people who end up in the endless cycle of the justice system? (Don't believe me? Read Reason Magazine's story about Tracy Ingle. Unfortunately, most police officers are in the business of policing because they want to play cops and robbers; they aren't in it to help people. The most eye opening part of this book was when he explains how someone can be inexorably caught in the "social services plantation," as he calls it: Joe gets arrested for carrying a joint (or DUI, driving without a license, mouthing off to a cop, etcetera ad nauseum). Joe needs to have the financial resources, familial support, and a very understanding boss for the needed time off to make it to his court appearances, probation officer meetings, court ordered Narcotics/Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and he needs to make it home from all these appointments in time because he's also ordered to complete in-home detention. One day Joe's car breaks down on the way home. He calls a tow truck. After the tow truck drops the car off at the repair shop, he calls for a taxi to take him home. He gets home an hour later than he's allowed, and fully expects to hear from his probation officer, but he's sure the tow truck bill, repair shop bill, and receipt for the taxi are enough to prove he is telling the truth. Sure enough, he gets a call, and he goes about explaining the situation. A few short minutes later, the police show up and arrest him for violating his probation. The probation officer tells him that the GPS device Joe is required to carry shows him being in the liquor store next to the repair shop, and any drinking is prohibited on probation. Joe insists he was only in the repair shop, but the probation officer doesn't believe him, and that's all that is required to put Joe in jail. Now Joe, the kid arrested for carrying a joint in his pocket, is a part of the local jail population for the next month. Career destroyed, family starting to have enough of Joe's getting in trouble, and financially buried by the court costs, the cost of the in-home detention, the cost of probation, and the cost of missing work for the required appointments throughout the day, Joe gives up on living a "proper life" and gets mixed up with illegal activities in the jail, and the process continues. All that from an arrest for a non-violent legal infraction. I know the above is a long anecdote, but it's a perfect illustration of one part of Carson's subtitle: "How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life." The only part that seems a little bit paranoid in this book is when Carson demonstrates how to make an arrest-proof car,

An Esssential "How To "Book

Of the How To" books, this one may be the most important one that you will every read. Author Dale C. Carson is a former Florida street cop and FBI agent. He is presently a practicing criminal defense attorney in Jacksonville, Florida. As such, he is in a perfect position to reveal the brutal truth about how police work, their methods, dirty tricks, and motivations. He stresses that cops do not receive promotions or accolades for keeping the peace, or resolving disputes by negotiation, but are evaluated and promoted strictly on the number of citations issued and arrests made, especially felony arrests. He goes on go to explain how easy it is for *anyone* to get arrested, a subtitle of the book. Most non-criminal "upstanding" citizens" can inadvertently become caught up in the criminal justice "plantation," to use a word coined in the book. Arrest records can have serious consequences, even if the charges are subsequently dismissed, not pressed, or you are acquitted. Such an arrest will doom you (especially young people) to a lifetime of low paid jobs, since many employers will not hire anybody with an arrest record, regardless of the judicial outcome or merit of the arrest. This is particularly dangerous in the age of electronic information, where records can last indefinitely. Before the computer age, written records often got lost with age. Not so now. So the only practical approach is a defensive/preventive/proactive one. Sadly, most people with not read this book until it is too late, if at all. The "clueless" people, who don't even understand the basics of the system, but are either petty criminals or non-criminals, because in their addition to their lack of ability to keep court dates (they do not own or do not use calendars or alarm clocks), frequently turn minor charges to major ones by failure to appear and other add-on charges. Probably most of them are not even literate enough to understand the simple advice in the book. This book explains how to keep from being sucked into the system. Once you are, it will be very expensive to get out, if it is possible at all. Numerous parasites in the criminal justice system, including cops, lawyers, prosecutors, jailers, social workers, psychologists, have a big interest in perpetuating the system. The most important battle to be won is for custody of your body - remember, cops are visually oriented predators, whose main motivation is to arrest you and take custody of your body. Buy this book BEFORE you get sucked into the system, and save a lot of money and heartache. As noted by the author, if you are a real, habitual, or big time criminal, this book will not be of much use to you - you will eventually be residing at the "Graybar Hotel" sooner or later. This book, however, is a must read for the non-criminal, petty criminal, or "victimless" criminal, or just for anybody that is naive about a dangerous, unforgiving system, in which ANYONE can inadvertently be caught up in for

Worth it's weight in gold, LITERALLY!

This book gets the strongest possible recommendation of any book I have ever reviewed! I believe it is quite literally worth it's weight in gold, because knowing the info inside this book could save you from getting arrested (and the associated expense) and the associated problems that getting arrested can bring you (and that could cost you literally thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed job opportunities.) The other reviews here do a good job of telling you what's in the book, so I won't repeat that. What I will say is that everyone needs to read this book to understand the mindset of law enforcement, which can save people a lot of unnecessary trouble. Also, one of things the author points out is that many companies will pass you over for jobs if you have ever been arrested (not just convicted). This means that anything you do, even a peaceful protest march arrest, could potentially cost you a future job or, in some cases, even your *current* job. The authors actually have a story in the book about a woman who did get arrested and did lose an executive level job. Part of the scariest, but most necessary, parts of the book is the discussion about how nowadays, thanks to computers, your arrest record can literally stick with you forever and never go away! (Especially if your info gets reported to NCIC - National Crime Information Center - a federal database whose records cannot be sealed as state records can be.) Electronic records are here and they are here to stay! If I could give a book more than a five star rating I would. Everyone needs this info, now!

Rules for not being arrested

This is a very good book about how not to get arrested. To summarize the main themes of the book, on how not to get arrested: - Don't carry guns in your vehicle - Don't have drugs in your vehicle - Don't mouth off to cops (actually, shut up when around them) - Never, ever touch a cop or physically invade his space, etc. - If a cop sees you, just keep doing what you were doing before he saw you (i.e., the police look for people who change their behavior around the police suddenly). The entire book is basically variations on those themes. His basic point is that the "clueless" get arrested, because they do one or more of the above. One main message of this book is "if they can't see you, they can't arrest you". Think about it. Who gets arrested ? The guy who is highly visible to police. The white collar criminal, operating behind closed doors is just not visible. The hurdle of a warrant to search a private home in the U.S. is massive. But the hurdle to stop and search a vehicle is not great at all. For that reason, the people who get arrested in the U.S. are people who do stupid stuff in their car (transport guns, transport drugs, get an attitude when stopped, physically touch the officer, etc.