re: Police Officer Killed in Cypress, TX

quote:

---

Look dammit, cops lie. If it weren't for the odds simply being against me, I'd honest to god say 10/10 police reports are CRIMINALY exaggerated. People just don't understand until they've experienced it.

---

There's so much wrong with this statement, it's both comical and sad


I work with police every single day, the vast majority of them are great people but just like any profession, some of them are asshats. But even amongst the asshats I know very few that lie.

And as to your bullshite statistic, I read police reports everyday and very very very few contain outright lies. I can't tell you the number of times that I've read a report and the defense attorney says it's all a lie because his client tells him some sob story, then when we look at a video of the incident it turns out to have happened EXACTLY like the cop wrote it up.

Wanna know the first thing I learned when I started working in criminal law (and I started as a defense attorney even though I'm now a prosecutor)? It's that 98% of the guys are just plain guilty.

So no, cops don't lie all the time. Have I seen cops lie? yes. But not nearly as much as the frickers they're arresting. The problem is that this country hates cops rights now and every time there is a tiny mistake it gets blasted all over the news. So idiots think "oh, 6 cops lied around the country this week, then all cops must be liars..." or "oh this cop killed an unarmed black guy, he must be a racist and all cops are racist." But those things are not the rule, instead they are the exceptions to the rule. They are rare cases. Like I said, I know a lot of cops because of what I do, and I respect the vast majority of them because they do put themselves in dangerous situations everyday. You may not like them, you may not respect them, but you don't fricking disparage them in a thread about a cop who was shot in the back by a coward.

I don't know this officer that was killed. But neither do you. So this isn't the thread to come in and talk about how there's some sort of justification for his death based on your ludicrous theory that all cops lie.

Asshat.