about time
As someone who has had police lie on accident reports and citations for conflict between bikes and cars where there has been personal injury all I can say is ABOUT TIME.
I have NEVER understood what motivates police officers who lie in police reports but I have always assumed it has been a sense of impunity. In some situations this proves to be false, and thanks be praised for that.
Having been caught on the bad side of such a scenario, it gives little hope that sometimes, if you're lucky, you can escape being wrongfully prosecuted. What should happen almost never does - in only the rarest of situations do lower level courts ever consider punishment of the criminal act of police lying on court documents. This seems to me to be a huge hole in our justice system. Police are protected by their unions, but the union/department interaction is not and should not be considered a proxy for actual justice.
A police officer being put on desk duty makes sense when there's evidence of wrongdoing and unnecessary violence in an arrest, but where is the court's fealty to justice and the rule of law? without truthfulness in record there is no opportunity for the rule of law.
I have NEVER understood what motivates police officers who lie in police reports but I have always assumed it has been a sense of impunity. In some situations this proves to be false, and thanks be praised for that.
Having been caught on the bad side of such a scenario, it gives little hope that sometimes, if you're lucky, you can escape being wrongfully prosecuted. What should happen almost never does - in only the rarest of situations do lower level courts ever consider punishment of the criminal act of police lying on court documents. This seems to me to be a huge hole in our justice system. Police are protected by their unions, but the union/department interaction is not and should not be considered a proxy for actual justice.
A police officer being put on desk duty makes sense when there's evidence of wrongdoing and unnecessary violence in an arrest, but where is the court's fealty to justice and the rule of law? without truthfulness in record there is no opportunity for the rule of law.
posted by aram shumavon at 11:24 AM
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