Police_Lying

Police Lying Tampering with evidence and committing perjury is becoming a common practice for law enforcement officers. These two forms of corruption are synonymous because they both involve lying. Police lying is perhaps the most widespread form of police wrongdoing facing today’s criminal justice system (Sexton 1994). Such police corruption is prevalent in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., and New Orleans. Police lying is so popular that it has its own nickname: “testilying” (NACDL 2003). There are various reasons officers engage in testilying, but such displays of misconduct is deplorable. Officers lie in order to ensure the conviction of persons they believe are guilty. There is the desire to see the guilty brought to justice. The police do not want a person they know to be a criminal to escape conviction simply because of a “technical” violation of the Constitution, a procedural formality, or a trivial exculpatory fact (Slobogin 1996). Officers use deceptive tactics because they are skeptical of a system that suppresses truth in the interest of the criminal, (Skolnick 1982). The O.J. Simpson trial for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman revealed police deception that occurred for these vary reasons. Los police, officers, law, 1996, criminal, deception, 2003, 2001, trust, public, citizens, system, protect, lie, laws, enforcement, because, perjury, lying, justice, guilty, conviction, , testilying, slobogin, should, retrieved, practices, new, manning, kleinig, follow, evidence, ethics, ensure, cops