Planting evidence and perjury are all 'part of the game' for too many police officers.
" Taken together, yesterday's events painted a picture of almost
routine fabrication of evidence in criminal cases in the identification unit of Troop C, based in Sidney, 65 miles southwest of Syracuse, beginning at least as far back as 1984. In general, officials said,
investigators would use fabricated fingerprint evidence to build cases against people who had already been identified as suspects.
The scandal has already undermined several criminal convictions, and in one case, led to the dismissal of charges of being accessory to murder against a woman who prosecutors now say had been jailed for a crime she did not commit. "
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/30/ny...gerprints.html
"In a confidential interview with a man identified as a confirmed 15-year veteran of Florida's Palm Beach County Sheriff's department, The D.C. Post has uncovered shocking details about allegedly common practices of dishonesty among law enforcement. An excerpt:
I work nights on the Road Patrol in a rough, um, mostly black neighborhood. Planting evidence and lying in your reports are just part of the game.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/540296...just-part-game
"Kevin Parry, 29, pleaded guilty in a U.S. district court to conspiracy to deprive others of their civil rights, a crime punishable by 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, according to U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.
"The actions described in today's guilty plea are reprehensible, and our investigation of that conduct continues," said Fishman in a press release. "Their actions, however, should be no reflection on the countless dedicated police officers who perform their mission honestly and admirably."
Parry admitted that he and the four other officers planted evidence; threatened people with arrest using planted evidence if they did not cooperate; conducted illegal searches and arrests; paid for cooperation and information, often from prostitutes, with illegal drugs; and wrote up false police reports and gave false testimony in court.
Parry was a police officer in the Camden Police Department since 2006. He and the other four officers were part of a special operations division and Parry said that on 30 to 50 occasions they added drugs to the amount of drugs seized on a person, so that the arrest appeared more significant.
The Camden County Prosecutor's Office said Friday that indictments were dismissed or convictions vacated in 171 cases. There are 14 more cases where charges were dismissed before any indictments were handed up."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGOYVGSvjM
"A Pasadena homicide detective bragged to a co-worker that the department routinely framed suspects, according to a defense attorney who played a tape of the detective in court Wednesday.
The detective, William Broghamer, is accused of intimidating witnesses in the murder trial of Rashad McCoy, a Palmdale man charged in the 2012 shooting death of Joseph Jones, a 23-year-old Pasadena resident.
Deputy Public Defender Cris Contreras tried to show a pattern of witness intimidation by Broghamer when he played for the jury a recorded interview of McCoy’s girlfriend, Mykesha Blair, as well as a comment Broghamer made after a 2011 interview with a suspect in an unrelated case.
After the 2011 interview ended, Broghamer left the recorder running. A sergeant in the room asked if somebody was in custody.
Broghamer responded,
'Just pin it on anybody. That’s how we roll.' "
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/gene...get-conviction
Likewise, Manitowoc police didn't care about Beernsten in 1985 - they pressured her to identify the wrong man against whom they held a grudge. The real perpetrator went on to commit more assaults and rapes, and the police didn't care about those victims either.