Good riposte. I'm not sure I could have thought of something that clever. I'm not suggesting you eat them, not when mere licking gives you the flavor.
Experienced court observers put the number of cops who lie in court at over 50%, easily. People are sent to jail for that and told they got off easy, ruining their lives. I agree 0% is the acceptable answer but it's way, way higher than that. It's been said an encounter with a cop is like landing a plane: it's a good one if you can walk away from it. When I was a kid being a cop was a considered noble profession. With today's SWAT teams and RICO, it's become a glorified street gang with fancy uniform and jackboots bent on theft of your assets.
In today's police state, if you're a victim of a crime you are better off if you "take care of it" on your own. Inviting a cop into your home to discuss a crime on you is inviting a cop to inspect it for criminal activity without a warrant.
I don't know what country you reside in, but in the US where I live and have traveled, I haven't experienced a police state.
Police officer perjury in court to justify illegal dope searches is commonplace. One of the dirty little not-so-secret secrets of the criminal justice system is undercover narcotics officers intentionally lying under oath. It is a perversion of the American justice system that strikes directly at the rule of law. Yet it is the routine way of doing business in courtrooms everywhere in America.
Count this as one more casualty of the "war on drugs." It is simply additional collateral damage from using the American criminal justice system as the battlefield of that war. It stands alongside the wasteful wreckage of hundreds of thousands of imprisoned Americans locked up for drug use, and the destruction of Mexico as a functioning state because of criminal cartels enriched through outlawed American drug use. The corruption of America's police officers as the most identifiable group of perjurers in the courts is one more item on that list.
The New York City Police Department is not exempt from this critique. In 2011, hundreds of drug cases were dismissed after several police officers were accused of mishandling evidence. That year, Justice Gustin L. Reichbach of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn condemned a widespread culture of lying and corruption in the department’s drug enforcement units. “I thought I was not naïve,” he said when announcing a guilty verdict involving a police detective who had planted crack cocaine on a pair of suspects. “But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed.”
Remarkably, New York City officers have been found to engage in patterns of deceit in cases involving charges as minor as trespass. In September it was reported that the Bronx district attorney’s office was so alarmed by police lying that it decided to stop prosecuting people who were stopped and arrested for trespassing at public housing projects, unless prosecutors first interviewed the arresting officer to ensure the arrest was actually warranted. Jeannette Rucker, the chief of arraignments for the Bronx district attorney, explained in a letter that it had become apparent that the police were arresting people even when there was convincing evidence that they were innocent. To justify the arrests, Ms. Rucker claimed, police officers provided false written statements, and in depositions, the arresting officers gave false testimony.
It's sad to see someone try to engage in a flamewar and then produce only a wet paper match.