{"id":50091,"date":"2015-04-15T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/serpico-on-police-lies-and-videotape.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:52:08","slug":"serpico-on-police-lies-and-videotape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/serpico-on-police-lies-and-videotape.html","title":{"rendered":"Serpico on police, lies, and videotape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not videotape, but video images conjoined with too many &quot;testi-lying&quot; reports from cops run the risk of profoundly changing the opinions of the general public about cops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/04\/north-charleston-shooting-116871.html#.VS6XzSFVhBf'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/CovU5B9nv50gjH2MC1HMtopJk2lJzZth0_VNYqddVPjK45PLYeM2qChTAj7HwZeV_zDXzzGqT-HUV97A1-TKQ16IYyXD8eVRjyjFrTbrybGd0kGLXtfbK_UrNBHI=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/04\/north-charleston-shooting-116871.html#.VS6XzSFVhBf'>When Cops Cry Wolf<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nI call it &ldquo;testi-lying.&rdquo; It has been a regular practice in police forces across the United States, at least since I served on the NYPD: official testimony that is made part of a police after-action report but is a pure lie, an invention. In the old days police would carry a &ldquo;drop gun&rdquo; or a &ldquo;drop knife&rdquo;&mdash;an inexpensive&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3ta6ZWGpd1G'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not videotape, but video images conjoined with too many &quot;testi-lying&quot; reports from cops run the risk of profoundly changing the opinions of the general public about cops. When Cops Cry Wolf I call it &ldquo;testi-lying.&rdquo; It has been a regular practice in police forces across the United States, at least since I served on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/serpico-on-police-lies-and-videotape.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Serpico on police, lies, and videotape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27270,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility.html","url_meta":{"origin":50091,"position":0},"title":"With great power comes great responsibility","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Mar-12 11:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Too many police departments keep pressing for laws (or retentions of laws) that make it illegal to photograph, videotape, or audio record their activities. 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