You were trying to be helpful so thank you, I do appreciate it and agree this Chicago story is quite horrific. I'm totally with you there.
But an example of a police department in one city run by one corrupt political party is not proof of the claim that any agency that does such a thing is a "believable policing agency"? Nor of the claim that this is "basically an universal trait of such agencies"?
I know there are policing agencies that behave poorly, the poster in this thread talking about NCIS gave another anecdote of it happening. That's not what I was questioning.
Persuasive interrogation like this is widely used across the United States to elicit confessions or convince people to accept plea bargains, even in cases where they are innocent, because our justice system does not actually have the capacity to provide everyone an actual trial. The risk of carrying a case to trial, even if you're innocent, can be significantly higher than entering a guilty plea and accepting a bargain.
