How do you call 911 after a self-defense incident? Is the call recorded? What do you do to keep from incriminating yourself? Will your 911 call be used against you? The Armed Attorneys break down the best practices for calling 911 after a defensive incident.
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Today we’re talking about the kind of five critical steps that comes to making a 911 call following a self-defense incident and you’re going to want to stick around to the end we have kind of our attorney pro tip of the day defies conventional wisdom and what a lot of industry experts are saying … we’re assuming that our scene is safe you’ve stopped a threat and now we come to that critical 9-1-1 call Emily where do you start with your clients yeah and this is one of the most common questions i get what do i do after i’ve shot someone and i know i have to make that 911 call … first thing we have to say is it’s recorded from probably the second the phone starts ringing not when the dispatcher picks up that’s not true in every jurisdiction but you must assume it’s true in yours … first critical step which is you know you’ve called 9-1-1 providing your name they got to know who they’re talking to the second critical step is providing the location of the services needed … the third critical step is what services are needed and by the way you always want police and EMS … the fourth critical step giving a a short statement about the defensive incident … bear in mind the prosecutor’s gonna use it against you either way … the next critical step is hanging up the phone now we’ve heard some talk online about locking phones down making them to where they can’t disengage whatever you need to do the phone needs to go off it needs to go in airplane mode you need to hang up the call it’s not a crime to hang up on 9-1-1 let’s say they lock a phone down and you can’t do anything with it it needs to go in another room where it can’t be gathering or listening on to any more conversations and the next critical step is that you’re talking to your attorney now have you ever um i haven’t had a client have E911 engage i’m not entirely certain that it isn’t like a a really successful urban legend you always hear it happened to someone else it happened to a friend it happened to my cousin i’ve never spoken to someone where it actually happened to them … attorney pro tip of the day which is kind of i think it’s going to be a little bit controversial because there are a lot of industry experts that i know will disagree with us and that’s about providing your description on the 911 call itself now having spoken to many dispatchers police and being a prosecutor myself this is kind of our reasoning behind not providing your description on the 911 call when police are receiving information from dispatch nine times out of ten i bet you it’s even higher than that i bet 19 times out of 20 they’re giving the description of a suspect they’re not giving a description of a victim that’s a bad guy it’s the bad guy and so on this psychological you know maybe it’s even um on a level where they’re not registering it or doing it consciously if you’re providing your description to dispatch dispatches forwarding that to patrol officers i think it will have some subconscious effect on officers arriving on scene maybe they investigate the crime just a little bit differently because subconsciously they’ve received that description they associate that with a suspect and so for that reason we don’t advise people to provide their description on the 911 call and if you think these subtle psychological things with officers we’re talking about is kind of a silliness don’t that officer who you know frames your situation writes that report decides how to frame it …
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