{"id":16727,"date":"2015-04-12T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16727"},"modified":"2015-04-12T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:22:30","slug":"16727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16727","title":{"rendered":"Serpico: Politico Magazine: When Cops Cry Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico Magazine: When Cops Cry Wolf<\/a> by Frank Serpico: <\/p>\n

Police have been setting up suspects with false testimony for decades. Is anyone going to believe them now when they tell the truth?<\/p>\n

I call it \u201ctesti-lying.\u201d It has been a regular practice in police forces across the United States, at least since I served on the NYPD: official testimony that is made part of a police after-action report but is a pure lie, an invention. In the old days police would carry a \u201cdrop gun\u201d or a \u201cdrop knife\u201d\u2014an inexpensive weapon cops would bring along on patrol to drop onto or next to a suspect they had taken out so they could say he had threatened them. Today you don\u2019t even need to do that; all you have to do to justify the use of deadly force if you are a police officer is to say that you feared for your life, for whatever reason. If the victim dies, that just means there will be one less witness around to contradict the testi-lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Politico Magazine: When Cops Cry Wolf by Frank Serpico: Police have been setting up suspects with false testimony for decades. Is anyone going to believe them now when they tell the truth? I call it \u201ctesti-lying.\u201d It has been a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16731,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727\/revisions\/16731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}