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Originally Posted by lkasigh
Proudfoot areyou reading what i'm saying? I know that cops sometimes plant drugs on people. I'm sure there are cases where evidence has been planted against people the cops believe to be guilty. I know there are cases where police have tunnel vision and fixate on the wrong guy - like the 1985 rape that Avery was convicted of.
What you believe happenedin the Halbach murder is way beyond any of that. The fact that people are bringing up stuff like the Manhattan project just shows how ridiculous your claims are. Yes, the military has the capacity to conceal a secret weapons program from the enemy during a war. No, the Manitowoc sheriff's department does not have the capacity (nor any conceivable motivation) to do what you believe they did without leaving any trace of it.
Police are very insular and protective. They are one of the most likely organizations to cover up for each other even if they know it is wrong. Due to loyalty and/or fear crossing the foundation of all law enforcement where you work and live is incredibly risky.
It has been pretty clear in all this the entire criminal justice system in Wisconsin is a horrible mess. It would have only taken one or two bad actors to do this and a few others to be complicit in their silence. If you don't think that the influence held over a rural community like that by the Sheriff's department and prosecutor is not enormous you are ignorant on the subject.
Potential motivations can be simple. Everyone on the Mantiwoc Force knew who Steve Avery was and what had happened with him. This was a great opportunity, potentially. Make a few key discoveries and you are the centerpiece investigator to solve the biggest case in forever around there while also putting a bad guy away. It would be trivially easy for a law enforcement officer to honestly think Avery is a bad guy and deserves what he gets even if he didn't do it.
Do small county investigators not have ambition? Again this is a small rural area with probably zero community oversight of law enforcement even after the first Avery case. Officers probably felt comfortable fudging things. It is clear the department failed on a large number of basic policy and procedures, with nobody checking their work this was a lifetime opportunity to put the bad guy away. They could easily rationalize this as a win-win-win. A guy they think is bad goes back to prison, family gets closure, officer(s) get higher profile career trajectories based on case.
We know cops can falter without oversite and accountability, and it seems obvious the later did not exist and I have seen no evidence of the former. Police officers have done some really bad things just to keep their current job and probably had a harder time rationalizing it than one would have locking Avery up. One of the main motivations found among arsonist firefighters is to be a hero and save the day. People do weird stuff for reasons they completely rationalize in their head.