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>Because the police are allowed to lie to you.

This IMO needs to change, if they can legally lie to you they can lie in court. They do both.




No, police are not allowed to lie in court... and there are limits to how far they can stretch the truth in interviews/investigations.


Legally they arent allowed to lie, but they do. Anyone who has been in court has seen it. You have to have proof they are lying to get them to stop.


That's true of any witness, though. Perjury is a crime, but you have to prove it.

In the trial context, good defense attorneys will be able to introduce contradictory evidence, or will challenge the credibility of a witness by finding facts that make them look bad -- even police officers. With police officers it's a bit harder, though, because the public largely believes (wrongly, I'm afraid) that police are more trustworthy than the general public.


Cops arent just any witness. If they are caught perjuring all the cases they testified against are eligible to be retried.

I have heard this discussed in court as a reason to not find the officer guilty. Records get sealed of course and you cant discuss it.

https://www.innocenceproject.org/prevalence-police-lying/


Lying in court is one thing, but it’s been accepted that the police can use deception to get information.

It makes sense. In many cases, subjects of investigations are unaware of them.

You may never have a situation where you wouldn’t want to share camera footage with authorities. But many people do, for a variety of reasons, and creating a norm where your home is a node of some surveillance network has obvious negative potentials.

The whole ecosystem of fear around home surveillance, Nextdoor, etc is awful and companies like Amazon are exploiting it without regard to the impact that it will have.


> You may never have a situation where you wouldn’t want to share camera footage with authorities. But many people do, for a variety of reasons

... For example?

> Creating a norm where your home is a node of some surveillance network has obvious negative potentials

Would you mind explaining what those are? They're not "obvious" to me.




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