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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The police are not your friends. They do not have your or your child's best interests in mind. You should at least consult an attorney to discuss how to handle questioning and whether the attorney should be present or merely on call. [/quote]

Of course they are, and yes they do. This is why they are investigating. When a person makes a claim like this - even a might - they want to know about it, for the good of the community.

OP, your daughter has a real responsibility here to tell the truth and nothing more, nothing less. I agree with the PPs who say that the word "might" is a loaded term and carries all sorts of implications. Either it happened or it didn't. She needs to work on this, with the therapist and get to the bottom of it.[/quote]

[b]No, the police are not friends or interested in what's best for the people they contact. They are interested in being in control and doing their job, which for most of them boils down to categorizing people as (1) victims; (2) perpetrators or accomplices; or (3) witnesses or informants. [/b]Police do not investigate objectively to the end and then weigh all the evidence.  Rather, they tend to develop a theory early on and once they have done that they switch to proving their theory correct. Their "interview" techniques are designed to elicit confessions, whether the interviewee is guilty or not. They make extensive use of suggestion, they are inexorably manipulative, and they are allowed to lie freely to the person being questioned.

A victim starts out with an advantage, but the second the police begin to intuit that the victim is not being completely candid the tables can turn. The same goes for witnesses. Police do what they do every day and they are very good at it. No one should go into an interaction with them without the advice of an equally competent and experienced lawyer v

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I would add 4) generating revenue via tickets fines etc and you're absolutely spot on. [/quote]

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