Did you read the articles?  Police officers were the first ones to report on their fellow officers for their misconduct (i.e. planting evidence) triggering the investigations of Internal Affairs.  I suppose the irony here is under your logic you would not believe the whistle blowing officers because they only had eyewitness accounts - and you don&#x27;t believe a single damn word out of a police officer&#x27;s mouth - rather you would have sided with the defending officers as you don&#x27;t care who the defendant is.