[Teever]

Also every 'smart' person who thought they could talk their way out of a police interrogation and is now spending the rest of their life in prison secured by knuckle dragging brutes.

Idiot Australians who smuggle drugs to/from Indonesia come to mind.

[boringuser2]

The difference in intelligence between the police and a singular criminal, especially the police as an organism, is vastly in favor of the police.

[nobody9999]

>The difference in intelligence between the police and a singular criminal, especially the police as an organism, is vastly in favor of the police.

I don't agree, as that's highly dependent on that singular criminal and the resources police are willing to expend on catching them. The police definitely have an advantage, as I pointed (most recently) here[0]:

   Law enforcement aren't superhuman. They're just as dumb (or smart, but the 
   really smart ones end up in corner offices rather than police stations like 
   police and more common criminals) as the next guy. Their big advantage, 
   especially in a circumstance like this, is that they only have to get it 
   right (i.e., find some evidence) once. The alleged perpetrator of a crime 
   needs to get it right (in covering their tracks, destroying evidence, etc.) 
   every single time to make sure they aren't identified and caught.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35550259

Edit: Corrected link. Clarified prose.

[Teever]

Yeah but I'm talking about scenarios where all people needed to do to avoid being locked in a little box for life was either A. Not do the obviously stupid thing that everyone is telling them is stupid and that they should absolutely not do. and B. Shut the fuck up.[0]

There are supposedly brilliant people serving life sentences right now and the only reason they're facing that situation is because they couldn't shut the fuck up when they sat down in a little room with an at best slightly above average intelligence police officer.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWHrkDX35o

[boringuser2]

The officer had a higher working intelligence in that case.

If I prepare for a test and perform better than someone smarter than me, my working knowledge made me superior at that task, even though I was less intelligent at the time I performed it.