When The Suspect Is Smarter Than The Detective

okay that's not enough okay I've been through the system you're not my friend all you're trying to get is some [ __ ] stupid ass confession and you're not gonna get one on a seemingly regular evening in 2011 alarm Bells began to sound itself in a local 7-Eleven reports of an armed robbery began flooding into the local police department but upon arrival at the scene the suspect was nowhere to be found after expanding the search that's when it's assumed police heard commotion in a house nearby and without any other leads they stormed in discovering a

known heroin addict sitting inside with a gun without any other evidence they arrested the man and brought him to be interviewed this so-called addict was Jeff Pearson the man who committed the robbery and the following goes down in history as one of the only times a man single-handedly beat the cops at their own game all that while experiencing horrific heroine withdrawals this is what happens when the suspect outsmarts the cop the next 24 hours were captured on police cameras within the interview room but conversely to most footage similar to this it was originally uploaded to

the suspect's own YouTube channel on the 25th of September 2011. this is the first sign of what makes Jeff a cult figure and a legend within the interrogation Community Jeff was held in police custody for almost an entire day but all of the footage from the three interrogation sessions held barely 15 minutes given that robbery and arrest took place within the state of Georgia a usual minimum sentence would be around 10 years imprisonment ranging up to a maximum of life without parole but it would transpire that Jeff wouldn't end up doing a minute of this

time and instead of serving multiple decades Behind Bars he spent a day being served drinks and Candy while delivering a master class in what to do while in police custody the following footage shows us in stunning detail what methods the cops will try on you and how to dodge them like an absolute Pro the footage starts with Jeff Hancock in a small windowless room dressed in prison scrubs it's clear he's already been processed and spent some time in a Cell likely while the cops spent some time Gathering the evidence and prepared to question him am

I under arrest for now I'm under arrest yeah I'll explain everything before I talk before I explain myself to you before we talk to each other I need to read your rights okay what am I gonna write for well like I said I need to read your eyes first obviously the charge is robbery okay Jeff immediately opens by asking if he's under arrest and on what grounds from the first moment it's evident that Jeff has done his research as this is exactly what you should be doing in this situation from here there are two options

if you're not being arrested or detained you can state that you're also not obligated to stay and answer questions and you should be completely free to leave the interrogation if you are being arrested you can then immediately ask for a lawyer and stay silent until you're provided with one these options give you the best chance of stopping the police in their tracks and allow you to create the best defense possible what's amusing is that when you're being arrested in America the officer is actually legally obligated to remind you of this take a listen to the

Miranda warning that this Detective reads out to Jeff you're the rights remain silent anything you say can will be used against you in the court of law get the right to talk to the lawyer for advice before we question you if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer and you want one he'll always be a provider for you if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer president you'll still have the right to stop hearing some questions anytime does that make sense you've probably heard these before haven't you these three points are incredibly important

and are often overlooked by the average citizen due to the Panic of being arrested in the first place alongside this because of how much we hear these lines and media such as police shows and movies most people completely glaze over it when they're being read these rights and fail to take into account that they're actually being provided with useful information that allows you to stay safe and protected while in police custody what this detective didn't mention though is that if you ask for a lawyer while under arrest they are not allowed to continue questioning and

you have a complete unquestionable right to refuse to answer any questions they may ask until you're provided with an attorney the detective also ends the rights with a snide remark about Jeff's past meant to subconsciously remind him that he is a previously convicted criminal do you understand your rights did you understand the right shift yes or no you understand we're getting paid more than you are so we can sit here for a long time man obviously you asked me yesterday do you understand your eyes let's get to that question do you understand what I read

you did you comprehend what I read you Jeff has been explicitly told he has the right to remain silent so that's exactly what he's deciding to do right here the leading detective leans back in his chair This was meant to show that he's unconcerned with Jeff silence and that he can stay there as long as necessary but body language like this usually indicates some form of unrest it's clear that the detective knows that this is gonna be a tricky few hours for them if you got something that says you didn't do this robbery this is

your chance to talk to us okay good job no usually I'm the prick you look like the brick I am if it's dominance we're talking about Jeff just took everything the cops had and dumped it in that garbage can I'm not asking if you want to talk to me at this point I just wondering did you understand what I read to you that's all my under arrest yes you're under arrest I'm getting back to the show I don't talk to you [ __ ] okay in this first round of interrogation Jeff exhibited exactly the correct

Behavior given his current circumstances Dean knows the cops have nothing on him they wouldn't be there talking to him in the first place if they did so he stays silent and so it's off back to his cell he goes but two hours later he's brought back to the same room for round two you wanted a coat yeah [Music] you gonna pop it open or you need me to I need nothing though you need methadone I don't have any do you have medication for it or I mean a prescription for it we need Methadone for because

I'm a [ __ ] junkie and you guys I'm gonna go through withdrawal here in a minute a can of soda is all Jeff requested before he returned to the interrogation room but he immediately mentions the withdrawals that he's likely already starting to feel however methadone the drug Jeff asked for at the start of this conversation can be used to significantly reduce the effects of the withdrawal it can even reduce the Cravings he's also probably been experiencing for the entire time he's been in police custody how long you been using heroin long time buddy 10

years 15 years I hardly been alive that long what are you trying to talk to me about here talk to you about what happened last night look here's the deal either you're in a bad bad set of circumstances or you wouldn't committed an under Aubry last night yeah I'm in a shitty uh wrong place at wrong time obviously I didn't commit no [ __ ] armed robbery all right then let's talk about this I don't talk to the police man Jeff is clearly through with the personal talk and wants to get back to the matter

at hand in his eyes he's been arrested for something he didn't do and wants to get out of there as quickly as possible okay I've been through the system but all you're trying to get is some [ __ ] stupid ass [ __ ] confession and you're not gonna get one Jeff I'm not going to get a confession out of you for nothing exactly because I know I'm trying to get a confessionality okay I'm gonna tell you I ain't committing to armed robbery and y'all ain't got no [ __ ] evidence saying I did let

me go all you did is find me sitting in my buddy's house because my [ __ ] Buddy's dog's going ape [ __ ] I go outside there are cops everywhere and they spot like me they say come here I said what's up they searched me ain't fine nothing let me read this no yes because I'm not gonna sign it you don't have to sign it so let me read it for you okay I'm not signing nothing you don't have to sign it the irony of this cop saying he's not trying to get Jeff while

he has him handcuffed in an interrogation room questioning him is very amusing but even through all this every part of what Jeff said here is so perfect it almost sounds rehearsed it's an incredible display of personal legal defense and is even more impressive when you layer it with the fact that Jeff is almost definitely starting to experience withdrawals I also want to highlight the point Jeff made about how cops are simply trying to force a confession out of him one of the main techniques used in these interrogations is the read technique developed by a former

cop and psychologist in the 1960s after he extracted a confession from a man accused of murdering his own wife the technique consists of nine steps beginning with a polite discussion about why the suspect is being accused of the crime followed by using certain body language and actions within the interrogation as a display of guilt the method ends with offering the suspects two alternative statements they can agree with one of which is slightly more acceptable than the other But whichever is chosen admits guilt and is counted as a confession this method forces the suspect into a

corner and is exceedingly good at extracting false confessions from innocent suspects in fact the original case that technique was formed around fell apart after discovering that the man in fact did not kill his wife and was tricked into giving a false confession absolutely Next Level gaslighting tell me what happened last night plain and simple your side of the store I'm not talking to you all right all right this is what I don't understand I know but this is what I don't understand Jeff you were sitting there talking just like you're ready to sit here and

tell me what happened last night and then all of a sudden I read that to you and you screw it I ain't talking to you I want a lawyer I don't understand that what what can happen because I told you what I already told you what happened you didn't I didn't I you didn't tell me what happened last night I didn't I just tell you what but now you've handcuffed me and I can't talk to you because you've asked for an attorney so okay that's fine but I will tell you right now you're still on

hold for a robbery I know I don't know why I need a [ __ ] lawyer because uh obviously I didn't do nothing and obviously you guys know I didn't do nothing because I've been arrested for the same [ __ ] before and you guys don't interview me this much so lion bam thank you for the coke put me back in the cell that's my home Jeff has now asked for a lawyer and is once again refusing to answer questions but we're only halfway through this footage and Jeff's ability to defend himself and completely destroy

this cop only gets better from here here's what the deal is I have enough evidence like what a real robbery okay but you know if if you're saying you didn't do it you need to give me your side of the story I didn't do it okay well give me your side of the story you got I mean convinced me because I got a lot of evidence I got a lot of physical evidence I'm like what why don't we why should I tell you that this is where the detective starts to become desperate he knows he's

running out of time and so has completely abandoned any elaborate techniques or methods to try and get information out of him he's now instead moved on to essentially just threatening him with false claims of evidence that he can easily use to convict Jeff if all of this was true he'd likely be trying to use it to intimidate Jeff into panicking and giving up more information but instead he uses a flimsy rhetoric claiming that because Jeff hasn't helped him he won't help Jeff there's only a couple pieces of evidence I'm missing What's that name you haven't

helped me out a lot you give me a little bit I'll give you a little bit we go back and forth I give you one more piece of evidence Now give me a little something all right what time do you get over to Aaron's house no I know anything I say here can and will be used against me sure but anything you say here I can also tell your your parole officer and you helped me out I've done the main deal now the detective is desperately trying to bargain with Jeff if he helps the cops

out they'll put in a good word with his parole officer but Jeff immediately realizes that means absolutely nothing what does a gold star mean if you're stuck in prison for 20 years this further enforces the idea that cops have absolutely nothing to convict Jeff with and also shows that they know they're running out of time Jeff has asked for a lawyer yet they're still sitting there questioning him as if that's not a blatant violation of the rights that they have read to Jeff on three separate occasions they know that if they don't get anything out

of him soon their time will run out and Jeff is watching the clock closely for the next four minutes of the interrogation Jeff continues to deny and combat anything the police say to him they bring up the gun that he was found with continue to try and strike a deal and even try to scare him by taunting him with what being back in prison would be like and without any of the drugs he's grown a dependency to but throughout all of this Jeff stays totally stone-faced he knows he's almost one I'm done man [ __

] this I'm not even answering all this [ __ ] that I just said is gonna be [ __ ] written in the discovery now right what you've never said nothing I mean every little stupid thing that you've asked me dude is going to be in the discovery I thought you would do discovery the prosecutor is okay I mean you you halfway know the system how things work be halfway Bill am I right I half-ass know that the only reason I came up here is to get a [ __ ] Coke okay and I got

it but now I want a Butterfinger but that's not gonna happen for a while what the Butterfinger yeah why not [Music] I need to go to the hospital I'm coughing up blood okay let's go for the last few hours the police have been questioning a man who is clearly in pain denying him access to the legal prescription drug that would help him deal with his issues and questioning him repeatedly on a crime for which they had no evidence for all the while Jeff dealt with this as casually as possible asking for sodas and chocolate bars

Jeff knew missed speaking at any point could lead him down a slippery slope so he exerted his rights in the perfect way and 12 hours later it's recorded that he was released from custody and sent on his merry way it's also reported that from here Jeff began to turn his life around he's off heroin and now spends his time uploading to the same YouTube channel the footage from this video was uploaded too he makes music and even gives extra tips on how to avoid the police's tricks [Music]