Put another way, the problem isn’t that cops aren’t capable of telling the truth. The problem is that the courts have treated cops as if they’re incapable of lying. Video is changing that.
How do we fix the police ?testilying? problem?
Put another way, the problem isn’t that cops aren’t capable of telling the truth. The problem is that the courts have treated cops as if they’re incapable of lying. Video is changing that.
Cops are people.
As in require the allowance of video?Expand the use of video. Ensure that the evidentiary rules require more and more recording so the trier of fact can see for themselves, e.g. expansion of IRE617 to include FSTs, Chompy sniffs, etc.
When you have video, this happens: New York Judge Declares Mistrial After Prosecutor Claims Defendant Tried To Run Her Down . . . Later Video Disputes Account And Defendant Was Not In The Car | JONATHAN TURLEY
I think the original question and your version are misleading. Lying will never be eliminated. But credibility favoritism could be eliminated.How do we fix the not-cops testilying problem?
I think the original question and your version are misleading. Lying will never be eliminated. But credibility favoritism could be eliminated.
Have you spent much time in a courtroom? Credibility favoritism is given to both sides, not just the prosecution/police.
I'll see how far that takes me next time I get a ticket for running a stop sign or something and the only evidence against me is someone else saying "I observed the defendant run the stop sign." I wonder which of us will be believed...
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How about starting with "I have no recollection of that" responses? "I may have or may not have ________."
How about requiring, as a condition of employment as a LEO, mandatory annual memory drills to confirm that the person enforcing the laws is actually capable of remembering basic facts of their own cases beyond the 6 months to a year time frame between the events and the trials? I had an officer in my case directly contradict his own arrest report on the stand. If you can't remember your own arrest report after a year, you don't need to be putting people's safety or liberty at jeopardy based on your failing powers of recollection.
Why are you always so defensive?Have you spent much time in a courtroom? Credibility favoritism is given to both sides, not just the prosecution/police.
Why are you always so defensive?
How about starting with "I have no recollection of that" responses? "I may have or may not have ________."
How about requiring, as a condition of employment as a LEO, mandatory annual memory drills to confirm that the person enforcing the laws is actually capable of remembering basic facts of their own cases beyond the 6 months to a year time frame between the events and the trials? I had an officer in my case directly contradict his own arrest report on the stand. If you can't remember your own arrest report after a year, you don't need to be putting people's safety or liberty at jeopardy based on your failing powers of recollection.
In 2013 I made nearly 2500 traffic stops, over 200 arrests and wrote nearly 200 non-arrest reports. Are you saying that I should be REQUIRED to remember every detail of each of those interactions? Thats lunacy...and impossible.