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Next time you see an opening, how about digging into the topic of 'Contempt of Cop' - being arrested for doing no more than irritating an officer, and 'testilying' - falsifying police records, apparently a common practice in the BPD and one well-known recent incident in Cambridge.
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Finally, there's "testilying" - when officers lie in court.
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The term "testilying" should be dropped from the lexicon.
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Defense lawyers say in many of these cases, officers are "testilying" and that the guns or drugs were actually discovered when their clients were unjustly frisked by officers.
Legal System Struggles With How to React When Police Officers Lie 2009
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My concern is that the CPD, like the BPD, have a culture which tolerates "testilying" on incident reports and in court testimony to cover for mistakes made in police procedure during the investigation, search or arrest.
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Defense lawyers say police officers are "testilying" when they are being less than truthful about the seizure of criminal evidence ( "
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"testilying", and occasionally murdered for contempt of cop, but it's crucial that you know what those rights are and how to assert them.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Ed Brayton none@example.com 2010
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"testilying", and occasionally murdered for contempt of cop, but it's crucial that you know what those rights are and how to assert them.
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"testilying", and occasionally murdered for contempt of cop, but it's crucial that you know what those rights are and how to assert them.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Ed Brayton none@example.com 2010
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Between the testilying cops, the careerist prosecutors and the general apathy of the public to the "criminal justice" system as it is lived in urban centers, it's a wonder that anyone is ever acquitted.
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Cops even developed a term for courtroom deception: testilying.
The Lies Cops Tell and the Lies We Tell About Cops Stuart Schrader 2023
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As David Correia and Tyler Wall point out, cops tend to consider breaking the law a little by testilying to be “justified … because it gets them around burdensome rules of evidence so they can ‘do their job’,” serving “the central mandate of police: order.”
The Lies Cops Tell and the Lies We Tell About Cops Stuart Schrader 2023
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"Though the number of cases is small, the lack of consequences for officers may seem surprising, given that a city commission on police corruption in the 1990s pinpointed tainted testimony as a problem so pervasive that the police even had a word for it: 'testilying.'"
The New York Times, Police in Gun Searches Face Disbelief in Court, by Benjamin Weiser, May 12, 2008
May 12, 2008