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Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade



Trabisnikof posted:

Both of those are currently the law, correct? Officers don't have to turn in reports if the report might describe illegal behavior and falsifying police or government documents is a criminal offense in most states, right?

I'd imagine this will vary widely among jurisdictions, but the real question isn't whether or not they are allowed/required to turn in blank reports, but whether or not they'll actually be punished for turning in false reports. Especially given that a report isn't an empirical proof, it's a witnessed accounting of an event from a single perspective. Even without knowingly lying about the content of a report, it's easy to imagine how 2 or more officers' reports could vary considerably - should you punish whichever was more false, and under what circumstances?

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Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade



I don't think anyone in this thread will defend Arpaio. Dude represents the worst of the worst of American law enforcement, it's amazing he is still in office.

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