Talking in the US context. The Miranda warning says anything you say can be used against you in a court of law but never to support your case. So as I see it talking to the cops makes no sense irrespective of whether you have committed a crime or not. So why do suspects sit for hours long interviews with the cops?
Edit:- “… never to support your case”. As some commenters pointed out the Miranda warning doesn’t say that. That’s right, I meant it in an implicit way. I just saw a defense attorney’s YT video who said that’s the hidden part.
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Because A) the tactics police are allowed (or rather, aren’t actively *disallowed*) from using in “interviews” are pretty ridiculous, such as literally being allowed to lie to you about facts related to the investigation in order to make you doubt your own memory and judgement, and B) the people that actually do commit the crime in the first place tend towards a certain area of the intelligence continuum.
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