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Parallel construction sounds an awful lot like lying

• octostone 6y ago
  They’re allowed to do that too
  • netizen-9748 6y ago
    They're allowed to lie to suspects, not the courts where parallel construction happens. A defense attorney can't get evidence stricken when it came from dubious sources when they lie in court about the source.
    • sneak 6y ago
      > They're allowed to lie to suspects, not the courts where parallel construction happens. That's only true in theory. In practice, police lies are one of the pillars of the US "justice" system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_perjury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_perjury https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-police-perjury-new-york.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/nyregion/testilying-polic... https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/police-testilying.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/police-testilyin...
      • netizen-9748 6y ago
        That is exactly the problem
    • voxic11 6y ago
      > The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day," one official said. "It's decades old, a bedrock concept." https://web.archive.org/web/20130809014315/https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805 https://web.archive.org/web/20130809014315/https://www.reute...
  • kwhitefoot 6y ago
    A lot of the comments in this discussion should be tagged with the country to which they apply.