- Dec 20, 2013
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Never "...work on a story to tell the Police." No matter how you think you may have it all figured out, it will be a lie if it did not happen that way. Good Detectives are trained to look for rehearsed statements. Once discovered, a lie will taint everything you've said. That will never bode well for everything else which is true.
Not only do I think RD's spot-on, but I don't think he's made it sufficiently clear why. Modern forensics've become so advanced that the crime-scene evidence makes it almost impossible to lie about what happened.
What I always tell students: Unless you're 100% certain you're legally justified to use lethal force to defend yourself (and, yes, that's a high hurdle to reach since these things usually happen in the blink-of-an-eye, which is why training for real-life scenarios is more effective than standard "tactical" or military training), keep your sidearm holstered....don't shoot.