Centinaia di multe – La polizia di Glarona accusata di aver manipolato le foto di prova

Un-fucking-beliveable.

And I’m pretty sure there will – as always – be no real consequences for those within the police who deliberately faked evidence.

Iv’e said it many times in the past and I can’t understand why it isn’t viewed as common sense:

As long as the statements of police officers typically have a higher credibility in front of the court than statements of normal civilians (meaning: one persons word against anothers means the word of the police wins) and as long as they have the monopoly on the use of force, it should be absolutely clear that any kind of abuse of those powers (e.g. telling lies in front of the court) should be met with the harshest of consequences.

Theres absolutely no reason why a policeman who was caught lying should remain in service, and in fact, not sit in prison. It opens the door for the most perfidious injustice. (E.g. police unprovokedly beating up civilians and then getting the civilians convicted for attacking the police. Which unfortunately seems to be not uncommon.)