S18 Ep1: Know Your Rights

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Bob breaks down our rights as citizens, in regards to interactions with law enforcement. What does Miranda really mean and how does it apply in real life? What does custody mean? What does the law say about lawful orders from law enforcement? How does all of this apply to I.C.E. Agents as opposed to other law enforcement officer? All of these questions are answered in today's episode.

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0:00.0	From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time. I'm Bob Ruff. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to truth and justice.
0:42.7	Today, this episode marks our first episode of season 18.
0:47.5	As I mentioned last week, we are kind of hitting pause on the Bynum season right now, season 17,
0:53.9	until we have more information and we get
0:55.3	a chance to interview Chris. And as I told you, my goal throughout season 18 is to produce episodes
1:01.0	every week that are educating and are helping promote people that are doing good work, trying to
1:07.2	just help us put more tools in our toolbox in our fight against a broken criminal
1:12.4	justice system to try to do some good. In today's episode, it turns out it's going to be
1:17.7	timely. It was actually supposed to be last week, but it's the episode that I've been talking
1:22.2	about producing for a couple of weeks now, and that is to just really break down in one episode very clearly what your
1:31.1	rights are if you have an interaction or an encounter with the police, what they are allowed to do,
1:37.9	what you can expect, and what you should do in those scenarios. Now, I need to add the caveat to this that, as you all know,
1:46.4	I am not a lawyer. So this is not legal advice. This is me sharing the information that I have been
1:53.3	studying, well, for years throughout my course of doing this podcast for going on 11 years now,
1:59.2	but also more intently for the last year where I've been studying to get my bachelor's degree in criminal justice. So I've been studying all these laws from the police officer's perspective. So I feel like I've got a pretty good wealth of knowledge here, but I definitely don't claim to be an expert. If you really have any questions, you should talk to a lawyer and not listen to a podcaster. That being said,
2:18.3	I hope that you'll get something out of this. Now, I'm going to tell you my plan going through
2:22.6	this. I did not write a script for this. I have done a ton of research. I have three different
2:28.5	long documents of research that are outlined out for me to share with you guys. Hopefully this
2:33.2	won't be too clunky. Mostly we're relying on Erica, we love you, Erica,
2:36.8	to make this seem pretty smooth when you're listening to it, to give you an idea of where this is going.
2:41.8	So in the first segment, we're going to talking about your rights, for you to understand your rights,
2:47.3	where these rules come from, and what you can expect with interactions with law enforcement.
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