Some police officers lie. Perjury by law enforcement officials in court is common enough that there’s a term for it: “testilying.”
Unfortunately, fibbing on arrest reports isn’t unheard of either. Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip Stinson found that among cases involving police officers who were arrested as criminal suspects, 6.3% involved allegations of false reports or statements. And of those cases, 25% were tied to police violence.
