You disingenuously claimed that as a DUI Instructor you knew no way to falsify a DUI, then when presented with stories that demonstrate how easy it is and how often is does occur, you retreat to the coward's argument of how it's the media fault.
Not sure how you read that out of my post. I never said (or implied) a DUI could not be falsified, nor that officers make mistakes on DUI arrests. I am definitely not retreating into anything. You seem to think that the proof regarding "dui arrests are
routinely falsified" are some isolated incidents throughout the US by posting media stories. This is simply not true. Does it occur? Absolutely. Is it routine?
NO. For every bad DUI arrest, I would guarantee that there are up to 10,000 good ones (nationwide). My mention of the media is simply to reinforce how you (and others) seem to think that it occurs more than it actually does. Take homicides for example. Always in the news, but they account for very little of the total crime that occurs.
Is it the media that sent those innocent men to death row, that beat the confession, that falsified those DUIs, that lied about the moving violations, that arrested the person just to feel good about himself, that lied to cover up the bad acts of another cop?
Again, compared to the profession as a whole, very isolated, and incidents which I believe have seriously declined.
As a reporter and a lawyer I have friends serving as public defenders, as prosecutors and as federal LEO. We have had spirited discussions on why the "Thin Blue Line" exists, but never has anyone been so dishonest as to deny its existence
I have never said or implied that the blue line does not exist. Do officers cover each other's actions? yes. My argument to your posts has always been your attempt to make it greater than it actually is. One corrupt officer is one too many, but I can definitely say the same about attorneys as well, but I do not come on here telling everyone to not trust "any and all attorneys" because of a few bad ones. That's my issue with where this thread has turned. It surprises me that you are an attorney and seem to be so quick to distrust most police officers. You say you appreciate the "vast majority," but your posts seem to imply the opposite. You appreciate the few that are noble. Maybe the bad ones just run rampant in your area. I would hope not, but most officers I either work with or know, are completely opposite of the picture you try to paint here.
Society, myself included, excuses the occasional LEO killing of an innocent man because "how did the cop know he wasn't a bad guy."
Well that makes me warm & fuzzy. Ever been in a life or death situation with half a second to react? Not likely, but I'm sure that most of the officer-involved shootings are the officer's fault, especially from a monday-morning quaterback's perspective. It is a good thing that juries see all the facts and evidence involved in a shooting, rather from a half-arsed perspective that you see on the tube or from third-hand information.