American cops do it to pad up their arrest numbers It always throws up a red flag for me when someone asserts that they know the motivations for another's acti

American cops do it to pad up their arrest numbers It always throws up a red flag for me when someone asserts that they know the motivations for another's actions. I make no bones about the claim that many cops are crooked - I've personally been wronged by them, and witnessed it happening to others, to know that's not the case. But I think that there's an alternative explanation for the kind of dishonesty we're talking about beyond base greed. It seems likely to me that many of these cops really believe that the people they're framing are in the wrong, but that the system has failed. In their minds, that we let people off on a technicality, or prevent the cops from doing the kind of searching that they believe is necessary, proves that the system is standing in the way of effective policing. So they take it on themselves to fix the bug in the system by circumventing those protections.