NYPD regularly lie per federal judge

[Sanity Claws]

A respected federal judge slammed the NYPD Monday as plagued by "widespread falsification by arresting officers."

Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein delivered the disturbing appraisal in a four-page decision refusing to throw out a multimillion dollar suit against the city filed by two men who were busted on bogus narcotics charges.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/11/30/2009-11-30_judge_rips_nypd_on_false_arrests.html#ixzz0YV3qKqSX

[Lost-in-FL]

1. Shocking! nt

[PM Martin]

2. They cops need to be held personably responsible in these suits.

[cloudbase]

3. It ain't just NYPD.

Every judge and district attorney knows it, too.

[HughMoran]

4. Yep, it's the same everywhere

Cops lie in Boston as a matter of course too. It's expected, well known, and I'm surprised this judge is actually stating this out loud.

[Sanity Claws]

6. That's the newsworthy part

A federal judge just said it.
This judge has been around a long time. He's nobody's fool.

[PM Martin]

9. Which is why I do not care for cops.

[HughMoran]

10. They have a job to do

They see too many guilty people get away, so they lie.

Knowing that they will lie is an advantage to the smart person.

[PM Martin]

11. Two wrongs do not make a right.

[HughMoran]

12. Never said it was right

...just that the smart person can easily outsmart a lazy liar - I know I have more than once.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. The Powers that Be Lie? Say it ain't so!

I always thought that my government always told me the truth!

You mean I can't trust them?

I haven't believed any thing they said since Kennedy. So what else is new?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

7. Breaking News Federal Judges Regularly Lie

[Fumesucker]

19. Why would judges need to lie?

In their professional capacity I mean..

[TexasObserver]

8. Every day, in many ways, always to make a case they can't make otherwise.

Or sometimes, just because they are prideful, and want to stick it to someone who merely pissed them off.

[JamesA1102]

13. This is news?

I've lived in NYC my whole life. Everyone knows the cops make shit up.

[imdjh]

14. I've only been arrested twice. Both times, the cops could have let me go without too much trouble...

..... but both times I actually did what I was being arrested for. Never went to trial, never got convicted, so no stand drama.

[HipChick]

15. Cops lie? say it aint so..n/t

[Flaneur]

16. The practice is so common it's even got a name: "testilying"

[donheld]

17. I'm glad at least one federal judge has awoke to this fact

known to most of the rest of us for ages.

[PM Martin]

18. kick to that