“I’m proud to admit… that I will never talk to any police officer under any circumstance,” declared Regent Law School professor James Duane.

Shocking as that statement may appear, the reasoning behind Duane’s insistence that students never, ever allow themselves to be interviewed by the police are actually quite sound – and damned unnerving.

The crux of his argument is that police officers—like everyone else—aren’t infallible. With the passage of time, they too can misremember facts, which could prove to be detrimental to your case if they take the stand with a faulty recollection of the events in question.

In a he-said, she-said case, things can quickly go awry if it suddenly becomes two against one (the officer and the accuser against you).

Heck, even the police agree:

I leave it up to your discretion, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.