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Chatting with cops

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Today, I was waiting in line at a lunch carryout, and a local cop was behind me. I admit that I remain so obsessed over all the police brutality, other police misconduct, police slickness, and legally-sanctioned police lying (to get confessions and other discovery)  going on in the world that I do not tend to do much chatting with cops outside the courthouse (unless it is about a pending case), as much as I know the value of knowing the opponent.  Today, I tried to move farther away from the stereotyping aspect of my concerns, but cops still are involved in enforcing many crimes that I think do not belong on the books or are too harshly punished, and they are taught slick skills and lying skills to get confessions. In any event, I warmly greeted the cop, and asked how he was doing, figuring at the very least that we have seen each other in the county's courthouses...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).