Ethics

Who You Gonna Believe, the Video Or Those Lying Cops?

By Ed Brayton

A federal judge has ripped into the NYPD for a long pattern of police officers lying on arrest reports and in court to frame innocent people. This is the judge in a case I wrote about a few months ago where two brothers were arrested for allegedly selling cocaine, but a surveillance video from the bar where they were arrested showed that virtually the entire police report was fabricated.

A respected federal judge slammed the NYPD Monday as plagued by "widespread falsification by arresting officers."

Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein delivered the disturbing appraisal in a four-page decision refusing to throw out a multimillion dollar suit against the city filed by two men who were busted on bogus narcotics charges.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).