The collective experience of U.S. Law Shield’s 90,000 members has shown that if you own a gun, you can and very well may have an incident or experience that puts you in contact with a police officer while you are armed.
If the officer decides to arrest you, whether the arrest is justified or not, there is one thing that can help you, as explained in this video by U.S. Law Shield Program Attorney Richard Carter.
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Since this nations foundings there have been but two justifide military reactions against a foreign nations soils, Barbary Coast Pirates and Pancho Villas depravations upon US bordertowns with Mexico.
Japan only attacked US soil in a minor fubar of Oregon coast, as all othrr pacific Islands were only held under military occupation, and as we now know both German and Japanese Wars were deliberately made to come about by a very small cadre of industrialist and politicly motivated
government officials.
Never once was was oath of defending Constitution nor its ideals defended by the military, never in”fact” ; But only in thr publics fantacy.
Nothing wrong or right of mercenary military forces just fact of todays
daily life.
The military as a chosen occupation is not a hell of a lot different than telling kids there is a Santa Clause and Easter Bunny and then buying the child gifts and candy to prove it; And most of kids even catching mommy
and daddy as liars , are happy to go aong with the lies.
The reality of militarism being that of a destructive means that destroyed Principals of Representative Government and substituted an Heirachial Warrior Caste Cultism in its stead.
It permeats all phases of daly life in US; and while its violent manifestations overseas could be hid from public as an aberations of the few and not a common trait, it is now increasingly rearing its ugliness by police on our city streets.
Nothing wrong or right as history provides many examples of warrior based civilizations.
Odd though there was nary a one that did not prey upon its own peoples and hastened their demise by doing so.
The lie spouted of americans owing their freedoms to military is most dangerous meme ever devised in order to enslave a peoples.
For American History is full of examples that not because of but in spite of freedom keeps trying to rear its head above the police and military backed tyrants.
Many who look at police today are not all on fringe and are now seeing
real face of Government, one far beyond our ability to dethrone.
They were the citizens last line of defense of military oppression and today that defense is no longer here.
A damned pistol permit is not liberty and freedom, it is no more than a token to buy your loyalty to the system; A nd you now have to pay even more for an “Extra Protection Shield” to the active and past members of that system ????????????
Ever wonder WTF happened to our legal systems law making bodies and procedures while you were being good soldiers?
I know many of my generation who hated The Man while we were in the
Nam , sure screwed the pooch by not looking him up once we got back home.
I am an american , my bones lay buried in theselands since before my white ancestors 1670’s invasion so I will criticize what I feel is harmfull to whatwas laid down in Blood of Ends of 1700’s till 1816.
NOTHING RIGHT OR WRONG, JUST LIFE AS IT IS!
While Texas Law Shield provided the information is very true, I look at it as a service provided, not just an advertisement.
Basic info is this- the guy presenting the information is a genuine source of information, and the information is free to use or not use.
It only cost you time to watch the video.
I fail to understand the anti military comments posted. I spent a career under 5 administrations. While I enlisted during the draft I continued my career as a professional sailor under the all volunteer force. My political leanings were never questioned and as to being nothing more than a mercenary I find that insulting. I did not serve to keep any politician or corporation in power. I served with honor in the defense of my country and its Constitution. As a career submariner I spent many months away from my family and friends and received a poor salary to do so. It was the Cold War and we did what had to be done to keep the balance of power in America’s favor. I apologize to no one for my service, or my actions while in uniform.
As for the police in America I have the same concerns as many others. I fear the militarization of local and state forces. The majority of my interactions with the police, while few, have been generally favorable. I have found that if I’m respectful and courteous the officer is as well. That having been said I have never been detained, or put in cuffs. Most local police I’ve met privately are simply doing their job and are family men as am I.
Well put Steve. I concur with everything you said and can speak from both a military and law enforcement career perspective of 32 years service and counting.
When over 80,000 pay an average of $ 11 a month to just one firm Texas Law Shield,, and the citys of Texas pay out million$ per year of taxpayers money for illegal actions of police; Where would one say the need stems from.
Check on the legal definition of registration of Law Shield under its LLc provisions, and it is not truly an pre-paid retainer at all.
Not going technical!
There are many other firms that offer same services as Texas Law Shield, none are as tight within the legal system as in Texas firm.
There is a grouping of LE only that are prepay members in Texas Lawshield.
NYC pays out over $150 million a year in bad cop and civil right
violations. And citys such as the size of Oklahoma and Minneapolis payout yearly averages of 12-14 millions .
Nationwide cities and countys pay out a couple hundred millions of taxpayers funds that could find better useages.
Sorry to burst your bubble but police abuse has been rising yearly while the rates of violent crime are falling.
It is a broken system with far to many allowed to enter its ranks that are no better than gang members in uniforms. .
Ones such system such as in LA , are so o blatantly open in just civil rights
sbuses, the feds are working within the systems to clean it up.
Try the readings of New Orleans police report under fed.
Why is there Internal Affairs, and no it isnot to protect the people, but the departments exposure to public must be protected on QT.
I may be old fool but at least this fool is able to recognize an advertizement for Texas Law Shields services posing as an article of interest., sneaky ad infomercials .
Realize that produucts are presented for readers to ponder but most are streight forward not back door legalese..
Sorry folks but do not call names and not sorry my site beat back hack after last posting on this issue.
Still on talking terms with vets, do not advertize my presense in military terms, and belong to vet orgs and live in a small Washington rural community with relative on force and have relatives ret and active duty mercs and contract cops in and out of states. As friends.
Corruption and good ol boy back scratching is not just relegated to rural backwaters and hicksville,.
PSSSST what major texas city just paid out huge amounts of taxpayers
funds to settle bad cop suit.
There is a problem and like a cancer it is growing, whereby our police are becoming occupiers of the land and an internal national miliary force; Hense the reason to buy and then carry a cop get out of jail free card;wether in Texas or Colorado. Or any state, but these are not prepaid legal, tricky issue on how or who they choose to defend.
— Oh Yawn…You are just blowing out hot air and praying for a balloon to float it in. Twisted thinking begets twisted commenting dude. Lets see some citations for all these numbers you are trotting out. It’s easy to spew numbers that don’t mean anything.
— The Law Shield is simply a pre-paid legal insurance in case you, YOU screw up and get in trouble with the law, not the law trying to collect from Law Shield or any other inverse twisted result you are coming up with. You are trying to take apples and oranges and throwing them on the wall and hoping to come up with passion fruit. As I said before: Twisted thinking.
Well this old fool has but one question, why are there 90,000 people paying on average of $11 dollarsva month to be defended from cops in the wrong?
And that is only in the Texas version.
Why is there over $250 millions paid out by cities each year for police misconduct?
That figure is low as most cities settle out of court and gag order settlements.
New York City alone is over $150 millions, Oklahoma City a mere public report of 12.8 mill? Minneapolis some 14 mill so obviously some departments have to put internal affairs to keep a lid on people understanding extent of not just dirty cops but whole damn dirty system.
As to my not knowing police or cops and military I have relatives in fed and civil and knew far too many on both sides of law but found no real moral differences between either groups membership, but in one part, police military are legaly protected criminals by other embers of Legal Establishment.
Even Texas Shield now has seperate grouping for cop protection.
We are fast reaching a privatized legal system from beat cops to legal firmd passinh judgements out without any part of old legal system having context of Justice.
#1 An ofgicer on duty has a professional standard and he if called has procedures that need to be followed and even if knowing individuald laws are laws.
Military is good occupation, but that is all it is and has no right to say it protects anyones freedoms except corporate,financial and political personalities, IMHO.
Why a need for an organization such as Oath Keepers?
Leave out who actualy pays for police criminality while they pay almost nill.
This old fool knows he is a fool, but hell even he recognized an infomercial for Texas Law Shield posing as an article about justice.
Many people today are carrying a card that they would place on top of their driver’s license. It says, “I have no interest in carrying on any type of conversation with you so dont ask me any questions. I will speak to you in the presence of my attorney. I wish to uphold my Constitutional rights as a citizen of the United States of America. Please do not comment on my wishes to uphold my rights. You do not have the right to search me or my vehicle without a search warrent.” The officers, regretably, have the right to lie to you without any reprecussion. They can tell you anything, such as “If you will just talk to me I may not have to arrest you,” You, on the othother hand, cannot lie to them. So just shut up. The only time they are even required to tell you the truth is when they recite or read Miranda.
Despite what fools like “Hide Behind” say 95% of police officers are honest, hard working and friends to the public. They certainly have more reason not to trust you than you have not to trust them. Just look at what idiots like “hide behind” tell people to do when it is very obvious that he has some axe to grind against authority figures in general and police in the specific.
If you are placed under arrest you will likely already have a good idea what for but at that point you should by all means exercise your right to remain silent regarding your charges. However in most states you are REQUIRED to provide identification information to the Police and you should cooperate. Your name, DOB, and address should suffice. If you are experienced with police you may want to tell them VERY basically what happened as in “They approached me on foot and aimed a gun at me and said they were going to kill me if I didn’t do what they said.” If they request more information of ANY kind respectfully advise them you would rather speak to an attorney before saying anything else. Once you tell the police this all questioning should end as anything you say without your attorney that is solicited by police will not be accepted as evidence. However remember that if you talk on your own without them asking anything that IS evidence so remain silent.
The officers are simply doing their jobs and in almost all cases they are not personally interested in the case. You will be transported to a jail and at some point after booking you will be allowed a phone call and you should contact either a family member who can call your lawyer or you can call them. The jail will ask you questions for their forms and usually this is not accusatory in nature but again give only basic ID answers.Then you will be placed in holding to see a judge the next day or the next business day.
Just remember that officers will almost always treat you with the same respect you give to them.
Bravo, JR!
Say nothing and cut the bull; cops are not friends of the people outside of immediate Civil Offices , there are far too many examples of police corruption , incompetance and down right sick SOB’s
You have no standards of conduct to expect from any police officer(s) and Wether they be Federal, state or any Civil Police Forces it is indeed us against them.; Them,being the system.
I do not put them down they survive in their system; Just as military became a mercenary force for economic international domination so too have our internal police forces became the domestic example , militarized to their core.
Always be servile in manner, and pretend ignorance and never question what ever they tell or want you to act as.
Join a cop friendly pay for advice company, and present their card as you show your concealed permit as those type services have excops andsystems cast of lpublic lawers.
“Hide Behind” you have obviously not met many cops.
Further, you should save your anti-government, -police, -military rant for the many fringe sites who would welcome them.
This site is for serious and informed comment.
Thats right, there is no consistency with law enforcement. There are good bad and in between. Get one that is going through a nasty divorce or family problems and you are in for trouble. Don’t say a word. Right on about the military, just a pawn for big business, since Viet Nam.
I’m an ex police officer and I would recommend not talking very much at all except for name etc… except for ” he tried to kill/harm me and I wanted to stop him” or words to that effect depending on the scenario. An Officer is collecting information the minute he steps out of his vehicle. You may say way too much before he decides to arrest you and all the statements you made prior are going into his report and could be used against you later. After an event calm down, assess the situation, be respectful and good luck.
Good advice, G-Man.
Coming from a family of lawyers and cops (paternal and maternal sides, respectively), there’s one agreed-upon point: once a cop places you under arrest, he’s no longer your “friend.” He’ll Mirandize you as required by law and then look to get as much information from you as possible to put into his arrest report in order to help the DA’s office incriminate, prosecute, and, ultimately, convict you. Most of the time, it’s nothing personal, it’s just the cop’s job and he’s required to do it so he does it.
But once those cuffs are placed on you, the “relationship” officially changes and the cop’s no longer there to “help” you – he’s now an adversary – and freely talking to him is analogous to helping him braid the rope that will be used to try and hang you.
Best thing to do is to remain cordial and polite and simply state that you do not wish to talk to him or answer any questions whatsoever until you have your attorney present – and then say no more! – irrespective of how many times the officer (or other officers) try and coerce you into talking!
The police have a legal right (and duty!) to uphold the law and arrest you if they think you’re in violation and you have a legal right to counsel (6th Amendment) and to avoid self-incrimination (5th Amendment).
My father spent 30 years as a criminal defense attorney and my maternal grandfather retired from the NYPD and they always agreed on this simple FACT: talking after an arrest only serves to help the prosecution and hurt the defendant.
I appreciate that this advice is coming from an expert that has seen legal circumstances from every possible angle. He is absolutely correct. Even prior to an arrest, don’t obstruct. But do keep your mouth shut and only answer the bare minimum required so the officer/agent may do his job. After an arrest, clam-up completely.
I can speak from experience, with the exception of a few overzealous officers, most arrests are procedural. Aside from heinous crime, most often we don’t want to make an arrest any more than you want the arrest. Sadly I’ve experienced situations where I knew the person just made a one-time mistake, but ethically and technically I still had to do my job; especially when training rookies because we have to set the example in every instance.
My point is, not every arrest is personal, but I will remember more about you the more you talk. I will admit in a few rare instances talking did make a difference and benefited the subject. But again, that’s rare. Most of the time people talk out of nervousness. But the more you say, the more you are offering for me to include in my case notes and report.
Far too often officers bear the brunt of the public’s wrath for negative outcomes. But it’s not always the officer’s fault given they are merely trained to document the scene; instead, most often it will be the prosecutor that takes what you’ve said and meshes it with other elements about you. Individually this would be nothing, but combined, a prosecutor can make you look awful to a jury.