I&#x27;m not certain cops signed up for indoctrination into a culture where it is acceptable to routinely prevaricate in official reports and testimony for the purposes of self-preservation, or even just personal convenience.<p>If the things you do and say could have drastic, life-changing repercussions for other people, you <i>should</i> have someone monitoring them.  If you don&#x27;t want to be watched all the time, the only acceptable alternative is to be unimpeachably trustworthy.  On the strength of just a handful of reports where the objectively verifiable facts--such as bystander smartphone video footage--contradict the official police story, that option is sadly no longer available.<p>If your child made a habit of lying to you on a regular basis, would you or would you not supervise their behavior more closely?  If the CPD were your child, it would have emptied your bottle of vodka, crashed your car <i>into your spouse&#x27;s car</i>, killed the family dog in the process, and when questioned about what happened, it would have said, &quot;Bad dog.  You probably should have trained him not to drink and drive.... -hic-&quot;