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Lying cops exist.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights (From public domain.)To say that no cops lie is to say that people do not grow old or die. As I have asked before, how on earth does one lie less by wearing a police badge? Am I the only one who believes that the vast majority of people lie frequently, and go well beyond so-called white lies? If that is true, then there is no reason to believe that cops are any more honest than those in the general population. Thanks to John Wesley Hall for posting a recent Chicago Tribune article that covers the testimony of former police officer Richard Doroniuk in a police corruptoin trial. The Tribune recounts Doroniuk testiifying, among other things, that "Officers carried a little crack cocaine to plant on suspects when searches came up empty and stole cash from drug dealers during raids and traffic stops...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).