Attorney Sam’s Take: The Corrupting Of MA Political, Prosecutorial And Police Investigations And Arrests
The Boston Criminal Law Blog has had a fairly police-intensive week this week. We began with
A police chase in which an officer accidently struck and killed a pedestrian (which, if we had done it would probably be treated as a homicide) and then with of law enforcement investigations and actions in cases of murder, vandalism, armed robbery and, “worst of all”, the “scourge” of prostitution.
And yet, critical as I may be, I claim to have a great deal of respect for police officers. Well, most of them, anyway.
And I do. I am not “anti-cop”.
True, my work tends to place me at the other side of the aisle from them in a courtroom. And yet, often, they are not my client’s enemy. It is often someone else who has made a certain report to the police which led to my client’s arrest.
“But Sam, you are always telling us how they lie during police investigations to get the unwitting to make statements.”



