Disgusting the lengths that some in LE will go to mitigate any culpability for egregiously unprofessional behavior and egregiously unprofessional misdeeds.
Hello, I'm officer friendly, besides being a cop I'm a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact.. I'm the president of the organization!
I didn't always lie. No, when I was a kid, I told the truth. But then one day, I got caught stealing money out of my mother's purse. I lied. I told her it was homework - that my teacher told me to do it. And she got fired! Yeah, that's what happened!
After that, lying was easy for me. I lied about my age and joined the NYPD. I was thirteen at the time. Yeah.. I went to Harlem, and I was injured while singing the blues. And they made me a three-star general! And then I got a job in journalism, writing for the National Enquire.. er, Geographic! Yeah.. I was making twenty thousand a ye.. month! In fact, I won the Pulitzer Prize that year! Yeah, that's the ticket.
And then my cousin died - Joe Louis - and I took it hard. Maybe too hard - I tried to kill myself. Yeahh.. I did kill myself! Sure! I was medically dead for a week and a half! It was a woman that brought me out of it - Sarah Palin! Yeah, right.. And she told me about Pathological Liars Anonymous.
Oh, you'd be surprised how many famous people belong. In fact.. at one of the meetings I met my wife - Morgan Fairchild! Yes, I'm a changed man now, and all because of Pathological Liars Anonymous. Why, I - I even have my picture on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Yeah. Every day! Yeah.. that's the ticket! Yeah, you betcha!
Yes, it is an exaggeration, but many times true.
I have a transcript of a cop testifying in a criminal case. The cop tells his story as to what happened. The defence attorney asked the same questions the prosecution asked. In other words, getting the cop to reaffirm his story. The defence attorney then asked if the cop reviewed the videos and pictures of the incident. The cop's answer was no. After the video and pictures contradicted the cops fabricated story the defence attorney asked the cop if he wanted to change his story. The cop said no.
The worse part is that the prosecutor and judge did not even flinch. Like, what's the problem Joe.
It seems that we like to blame Mikey. Mikey did it......