{"id":674,"date":"2012-10-19T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=674"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:59:03","slug":"34-myth-1-a-cop-has-to-tell-you-hes-a-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"34. Myth #1: A Cop Has to Tell You He’s a Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped!
Entrapment pg 14: Myth #1\u2014A cop has to tell you if he’s a cop<\/p>\n

MYTH #1:<\/strong> A cop has to tell you if he’s a cop.<\/p>\n

Counsel explaining to Cora<\/em><\/p>\n

CORA<\/em><\/p>\n

False.<\/strong> No undercover cop ever has to admit he’s a police officer.<\/p>\n

CORA<\/em><\/p>\n

But everyone knows they have to!<\/p>\n

COUNSEL<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, everybody’s wrong.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing that this myth has stuck around so long, when tons of undercover arrests prove it wrong every day.<\/p>\n

Cora isn’t convinced.<\/em><\/p>\n

CORA<\/em><\/p>\n

I still don’t get it. I’ve heard it a\u00a0thousand<\/strong> times from kids at school, in movies, on T.V.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe it’s not so amazing after all.<\/p>\n

Regardless, without\u00a0deception<\/strong>, the police couldn’t do their job very well.<\/p>\n

Cora’s balding, middle-aged undercover<\/em><\/p>\n

UNDERCOVER<\/em><\/p>\n

If someone knows I’m a cop, they’re not likely to let me catch them in the\u00a0act,<\/strong> are they?<\/p>\n

[Side note for those who’ve read this far: Busting this myth is literally the reason I started this comic in the first place. It was the first one I mentioned in my blog\u00a0The Criminal Lawyer<\/em>, of which this comic is an offshoot. As you’ve noticed, it was more a blog with the occasional picture at first. Turned into a comic without my realizing it. Anyway, this point was the one I had in mind at the outset, first and foremost, ahead of all the myriad other myths and misconceptions that people have about the law that made me realize I could draw this comic until the day I die and still have plenty of material left to cover.]<\/p>\n

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