There's no major scandal because it is expected, it is practiced with regularity, and it is not punished when it happens. Some friends of mine were setup by Au

There's no major scandal because it is expected, it is practiced with regularity, and it is not punished when it happens. Some friends of mine were setup by Austin Police Department undercover officers...the protest they intended to participate in would have led to misdemeanor charges. The undercover officers encouraged use of, and provided, dragon sleeves (a type of lockbox to make it harder to separate protestors who are in a sit-in or lockdown of some sort), which led to felony charges for seven of the protestors. It was entirely a lucky break that one of the undercover officers was outed (a friend of a friend recognized him from school and knew he was a cop), and with that information the lawyer was able to request all the records that showed how things went down. Had that lucky break not happened, those kids would still be in jail today and saddled with felonies. The prosecuting attorney tried to make the case that his Houston officers didn't know about it, and that it wasn't relevant to the case and that evidence shouldn't be brought up. The judge, thankfully, disagreed. In my experience, cops lie, prosecuting attorneys lie, and when they lie they face no consequences. The officers overseeing this case, and the district attorney prosecuting this, should be out of a job or, better, in jail for trying to destroy a man's life. But, to them it's just another day. They got caught this time, but dozens of others weren't lucky enough to have surveillance footage proving their innocence. I don't have a very high opinion of police or the justice system, as you may have guessed by now. But, I think it's important to stop living under the illusion that this is an isolated incident and that "most cops are good people".