Posted on 10/18/2017 12:01:52 PM PDT by JP1201
A federal judge in Brooklyn has told the city to prepare for a court hearing regarding the prevalence of lying by New York City police officers and whether the New York Police Department has done too little to discipline officers who testify falsely.
For years, federal judges in New York City have been issuing rulings in individual criminal cases casting doubt on the credibility of some police testimony. But the opinion issued on Tuesday by Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn may signal a broader judicial inquiry into police perjury.
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I suspect this is one more Leftist judge chopping away at the justice system of the United States.
The Left won’t be happy until the police are rendered unable to perform their duties.
It is his and other judge’s duty to take officers to task when they testify, if they think they have lied.
It is not their task to slander all police officers as liars, so their testimony can never be trusted again.
The Leftist move to anarchy moves unabated.
I’ll accept this when the Feds start charging “witnesses” like those in Ferguson with perjury.
ML/NJ
I have seen with my own eyes deputies lying in paperwork after brutalizing a friend.
They basically took a ‘drunk in public’ offence and beat the h*ll out of a little drunk guy(5’6”, 130Lbs) and then claimed ‘assault on an officer’ and DUI when that person was 400 yards from his vehicle.
He had to have his nose and ear sewed up and spent 10 days in jail. Now he has a record.
The police have a tough job to do *but* ‘I’ put them in the ‘unleashed pit bull category.
Remember: “There is no situation so bad it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman”.
As I said clearly. Judges need to address this in individual cases. If they don’t, they are part of the problem.
Sorry, but when a federal judge (which may be the kind that keeps striking down Trump’s immigration restrictions, or overturning the will of the public on many issues) starts looking into things like this, they can be very destructive.
I’m not here to defend things officers have done that were wrong. What I am here to defend against is a federal judge inflicting a death kill on law enforcement.
Many years ago I had an agent under my command who the Assistant US attorney claimed was not candid in his testimony so they issued a letter indicating they would not use him as a witness in future cases.
I began removal proceeding against the agent because he was no longer able to fulfill the duties of his office. He was suspended pending an arbitration hearing. When the arbitration hearing took place no one from the AUSAs office or anyone from DOJ would show up.
They basically said that they don’t get involved in employment decisions.
So the agent got his job back and I had to reassign him to duties that would not likely result in court actions. It worked for a wile but eventually resulted in us having to drop some felony cases because he could have been call as a witness.
There is a court case I believe called ‘Henthorp’ that basically says that the US Attorney must provide the defense council with any derogatory employment history that could be used to impeach the witness.
Gets my vote...
If Judges were doing their Job in the first place, by Immediately Remanding the LYING Witness for Contempt of Court for 30 days, giving the DA plenty of time to file Perjury and Felony Extortion Charges against the Liar with the Magic Blue Costume, None of this would be necessary.
They’re allowed to lie to suspects to get a confession; some of them carry that forward.
Worked as a investigator for a City, saw actual lying by the police to make a charge. ON the flip side, when an officer was involved in an accident, etc, invariably the officer lied.
A police officer is no more trustworthy than any other person, and is heavily influenced by the environment. If an environment accept and encourages falsifying misconduct, the officer will be hard pressed not to conform, and the history of the NYPD is such that irregular activities are not atypical.
Yeah; good luck with that.
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