And if they give you some bullshit about “exigent circumstances” to try to convince you to agree to something, just remember, if they met the criteria for exigent circumstances, they wouldn’t be asking, they’d have already broken your window or door or otherwise removed your agency.
This is what I tried to get at with taking advantage of your good will. When we order people to do things we often frame it as a question to be polite. “Would you please do X?” So we’re used to hearing questions and just saying “yeah sure”.
And if they give you some bullshit about “exigent circumstances” to try to convince you to agree to something, just remember, if they met the criteria for exigent circumstances, they wouldn’t be asking, they’d have already broken your window or door or otherwise removed your agency.
This is what I tried to get at with taking advantage of your good will. When we order people to do things we often frame it as a question to be polite. “Would you please do X?” So we’re used to hearing questions and just saying “yeah sure”.
Worse, they’ll phrase it like
“I’m going to search your car, is that alright?”
Like it’s a command, and you don’t register that it isn’t in time.