[tomohelix]

Unfortunately, people who are aware of this won't even use this thing anyway and many who are exploitable would be tricked into giving their phone to the police.

I hate how police is legally allowed to lie and psychologically trick/pressure people into things they would not normally do. It makes me distrust and question everything they do and say, i.e. being uncooperative to them. Which they then can use as an excuse to escalate and detain or get violent to me.

Interacting with the police is a terrible experience no matter how upright you are because even if you are faultless, they can still make up shit to mess with your day, or life.

[phpisthebest]

I would not have a problem with police legally lying, if it was legal for me to lie in response.

The single biggest problem in modern society is a dual rules we have for government agents vs the population at large, this can not stand in a free society. We all either have the same rules or we have tyranny there is no 3rd option

[Tagbert]

You are not required to tell the truth to the police.

[phpisthebest]

Well Lying to the FBI and other federal agents is direct violation of the law

Lying to general police while not direct violation of the law, can be (and has been) prosecuted under several laws such as obstruction of justice, also several states have statues making false or misleading statements to police or public officials during in official investigation. Then there are also laws that prohibiting lying in specific context like your name, address, and other details.

[bigmattystyles]

You can say nothing, but you cannot make a false statement