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posted by martyb on Friday July 21 2017, @01:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the Alexa-don't-watch-me-do-crime dept.

A Baltimore cop, identified as Richard Pinheiro, was recorded on video planting drugs then "finding" them moments later - in front of two other unnamed cops. The video was made possible due to Pinheiro's body camera being designed to keep the 30 seconds of video prior to it being "switched on".

Charges against the civilian suspect have been dropped; no word yet on any criminal charges against any of the three cops.

Also at Ars Technica, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today and vox.com.


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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday July 21 2017, @03:29AM (2 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday July 21 2017, @03:29AM (#542164) Journal

    the police *knew* the civilian was going to turn out to be a criminal; they were just bringing it forward a little.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:06AM (#542194)

    Simple case of parallel construction.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @07:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @07:04PM (#542505)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_Were_Made_(But_Not_by_Me) [wikipedia.org]
    "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) is a non-fiction book by social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, first published in 2007. It deals with cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias and other cognitive biases, using these psychological theories to illustrate how the perpetrators (and victims) of hurtful acts justify and rationalize their behavior. It describes a positive feedback loop of action and self-deception by which slight differences between people's attitudes become polarized."

    Includes a section on planting evidence and also: "Criminal interrogation, the pseudoscientific Reid technique, and false confessions; Trials, capital punishment, police perjury, and miscarriage of justice"