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BigDon
18-July-2008, 11:17 PM
Yeah, sort of like that "bad call" made in "Aliens".

Detectives trying to get a murderer to confess, lie about a 16 year old girl identifing him as the suspect and when he doesn't confess after hours of interrogation don't bother to tell the murderer they were lying. Murderer contacts friends two days later and has her killed.

I'm sorry, this would start a blood feud. Shoot, this SHOULD start a blood feud.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd18-2008jul18,0,1700336.story
Moose
18-July-2008, 11:30 PM
The detective was "reassigned?" This is very much the sort of thing that has made it so that so many people no longer trust the police. At all.

Ugh. It's one kind of unethical to lie to a suspect. It's another kind of unethical to use a consenting adult as confession-bait. It's a whole new level of beyond-the-pale unethical to use a minor, who cannot legally consent to place herself in danger, as unknowing, unwilling bait.

If there really was any justice in the world, that detective would be facing charges of some kind. Something along the lines of negligent manslaughter.
Torsten
18-July-2008, 11:33 PM
That this sort of consequence wasn't anticipated indicates that the detective's grey matter functions on the same level as dung.

ETA: I thought stories like this only happened in television shows as a cheap way to get the viewers' blood boiling. I never thought something so obviously wrong could be played out in real life. Clearly, I don't read enough news.
chrissy
18-July-2008, 11:45 PM
What they say they need more training?
How about stop watching too much TV , this is the real world.
They should be jailed for that, as an accessary to murder.
It is disgusting BD, I hope they pay for their involvement in her murder.
geonuc
19-July-2008, 01:30 PM
Typically, in the US, civil action is the result of this kind of official misconduct. The city has to pay enormous damages to the family; taxpayers get riled about their money being wasted; changes to the system are made.

Or, at least that's how it's supposed to work. Sadly ...