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Alejandro Castillo, a 15-year-veteran of the LAPD, was convicted of perjury after filing a false police report in a 2019 DUI arrest in Hollywood.
It's customary for reporters, judges, lawyers and the public to take police officers at their word. The video showing Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes provoked ...
In criminal law, police perjury, sometimes euphemistically called "testilying", [1] [2] is the act of a police officer knowingly giving false testimony.It is typically used in a criminal trial to "make the case" against defendants believed by the police to be guilty when irregularities during the suspects' arrest or search threaten to result in their acquittal.
When police confiscate [2] or destroy a citizen's photographs or recordings of officers' misconduct, the police's act of destroying the evidence may be prosecuted as an act of evidence tampering, if the recordings being destroyed are potential evidence in a criminal or regulatory investigation of the officers themselves. [9]
Sixteen police officers from the 48th Precinct station house in The Bronx were indicted and arrested on corruption charges including larceny, filing false police reports, and insurance fraud. Seven further officers faced disciplinary action, but not arrests, because there was insufficient evidence to lead to indictments.
A false report of an active shooter drew police to Ontario Mills mall Monday, investigators said. “A shooting did not happen,” Ontario Police Chief Mike Lorenz wrote in a tweet. “Ontario PD ...
A "throw down," i.e. the planting of a weapon at a crime scene might be used by the police to justify shooting the victim in self-defense, and avoid possible prosecution for manslaughter. [1] However, the accused might have falsified some evidence, especially if not arrested immediately, or by having other access to a crime scene and related areas.
Oklahoma City's police department is one of a handful to experiment with AI chatbots to produce the first drafts of incident reports. Police officers who've tried it are enthused about the time ...