the fact that police officers are “only human” is only one of the two problems. The other problem is that they are working within a legal system that is highly imperfect. That is not their fault, because they did not design the system. But as this book will demonstrate, it is a broken system that relies heavily on the judgment of judges and juries who are also only human, and who can sometimes be unduly influenced by irrational prejudices and assumptions. They make mistakes too. And judges, for many years, have given police officers encouragement and incentives to engage in all sorts of
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