To: Greg or e who wrote (35052 ) 4/10/2013 3:21:55 AM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to "I wonder if your CLOSE friends and relatives know just how low your opinion of them actually is" I never said I had a low opinion of my relatives, did I?"They (the cops) are all trained liars and crooks to the last man. But some of them are pretty decent, nevertheless..." Typically, you attempt to opportunistically misrepresent my remarks! Any honest cop will tell you (well--not YOU, because YOU are a dimwitted ass!) that they have broken the law many times.ormer Police Commissioner Explains Why Cops Lie Jacob Sullum scandal explains Police officer perjury in court to justify illegal dope searches is commonplace. One of the dirty little not-so-secret secrets of the criminal justice system is undercover narcotics officers intentionally lying under oath. It is a perversion of the American justice system that strikes directly at the rule of law. Yet it is the routine way of doing business in courtrooms everywhere in America. Keane, a former San Francisco police commissioner, cites three reasons for this state of affairs: unsympathetic suspects, judges who bend over backward to admit evidence except when the signs of falsification (such as the surveillance footage feeding the current scandal) are impossible to ignore, and the incentives created by the war on drugs:It is simply additional collateral damage from using the American criminal justice system as the battlefield of that war. It stands alongside the wasteful wreckage of hundreds of thousands of imprisoned Americans locked up for drug use, and the destruction of Mexico as a functioning state because of criminal cartels enriched through outlawed American drug use. The corruption of America's police officers as the most identifiable group of perjurers in the courts is one more item on that list."
