"Police say" whatever the fuck they want.

This is why I can’t be on a jury. When they ask if anyone has any prejudice I honestly answer that I am prejudiced against lying police and wouldn’t believe a word they say if their tongues were notarized. In fact, if a police officer says something, any claim, it instantly becomes questionable no matter how established the claim may be.

They went to the Supreme Court to secure their rights to lie outright at all times performing their jobs. They train to lie in their job to secure compliance, information, confessions, or just statements they can twist to pretend they’re confessions or evidence. It’s asinine to believe they suddenly stop lying on the stand but lie constantly everywhere else.

This has gotten me tossed off multiple juries, with “thank you”s from the defense tables for saying it out loud in front of the rest of the jury.

Alameda County just suspended and removed guns from near 10% of its police force for failing psychological exams. Some of these officers had been actively policing for 6 or more years since failing the required exams, in violation of state law, because the sherif took the bad legal advice from “California Commission of Police Standards and Training” that once told him it might be legal to hire people who fail the psych test (not that it was acceptable) and they ran with that incorrect advice.

You have to be a real serious dangerous idiot to fail these psych tests. They aren’t hard.

Worse, the 47 dangerous and unqualified officers put on desk duty will still get full pay and benefits as police despite being totally unqualified and legally barred from holding the job.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/27/california-deputies-suspended-psychological-exams/10443703002/