I do not agree with the old I have nothing to hide statement. Remember the Miranda rights clause that anything you say MAY be used against you.? Fair warning, the police can and do lie to those interviewed but you can be charged with lying to them.
Say you are in a strange neighborhood looking at homes for sale, neighborhood watch sees your unfamiliar car and notes down your license plate. The next day a home is broken in to and the owners are killed.
Knock on the door and the cops want to know what you were doing that day, why you were there. You tell them the truth, you were just looking out of curiosity, not meaning to buy, just a lookie-loo.
Cops come back the next day or call you down to the station and tell you 5 people have seen your car riding about that area at all times of day and night, perhaps even parked near a school bus drop off zone. Now as you deny this the cops start looking into you ,your family and friends and find you have a black sheep in the family that you have seen only on holidays that spent some time for B&E, drugs or DWI.
Cops request your finger prints and a DNA swab, ---you have nothing to hide so you coperate with the request.
With all this going on you are loosing work and perhaps sleep, nothing screws with the mind more then to be accused of some action you did not do. Whats the old saying "Me thinks you protest too much"
You begin to try to relive everything you did that day, did you even drive past that house, was a home up for sale next door, did you get out of your car and perhaps peek in the windows, drop a cigarette butt on the ground with your DNA on it. Finger prints on the window as you looked inside.
Your life is an open book, but what about acquaintances family and friends. Your boss may not like you enough to allow you to take off work for all this questioning, coworkers are now giving you strange looks.
Your car is impounded, for months. Little by little you realise that you are the only suspect the police have.
Then comes an open search warrent of your home and all property, your story about out of the blue deciding to look at homes for sale in that area with no intent to buy is very fishy to them.
All too late you lawyer up, why get a lawyer if one is innocent, you have nothing to hide. You wait until you have lost your transportation, home has been ransacked by the police, perhaps fired from your job, friends and family have been investigated' you had no idea that there were outstanding warrents out on Uncle Joe or your nephews were growing weed in Grandmas back yard.
You may have nothing to hide, but, what about friends and family that get caught up in this investigation ???
Not but to mention the anger they direct at you for calling attenton to them.
The simple things in life, innocent acts can get a criminal caught. A tail light out on a car transporting drugs, up to Son Of Sam that was caught because of a parking ticket. Not too surprising that someone would uses the excuse they were in unfamiliar territory just looking at homes they had no intention to buy.
You my Dear are either very Naive or very young to believe that living a open book life and doing no wrong can keep you safe from some kind of calamity--------Look at the people that have their identities stolen ,now that is Hell on earth.
--edited because there was a very loooooooooong empty space taking up way too much room when viewed on my laptop. Dixie