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Can you post links with this stuff, please?
We have created a culture of liars within the police departments. They can lie to us when they interrogate, just fine.
Is it any surprise that lying spills over to other areas?
There's a reason videos defendants request are often "incomplete" or "defective".
oopsie daisyOr altered or censored or "lost" or they just simply refuse to give them out...
Bookmarked.I usually do. Sorry about that. Here you go: https://www.wbay.com/2022/02/28/fir...riff-testifies-reports-are-routinely-altered/
I am going to assume the author, the officer, signs his name at the bottom of a report saying the included information is correct.“What type of corrections would fall under that last category? Need be to make the report correct?”“To make it factually correct for the charges being there? Yes, correct,” Thobaben answered.Then came testimony from the sheriff himself, Tim Wilz, who was elected in 2019.He was asked multiple times about changing police reports.“No, we don’t. We don’t change reports. We correct them,” Sheriff Wilz testified.“And they can correct them in a way that will remove evidence?” asked Drury.“No, we don’t correct them in a way that removed evidence. We make sure they’re accurate as to what the officer did,” Wilz said.Waupaca County District Attorney Veronica Isherwood said, “I think it’s clear to anyone who listened to testimony today that basically every county prosecution that the district attorney’s office has right now is in jeopardy.”After nearly five hours of testimony, Judge Huber had the final say.“I’m not at this point in time necessarily inclined to identify an individual in the sheriff’s department was involved in a Brady violation. I’m more inclined to find that the department as a whole, from the sheriff on down. They believed reports could be changed, contrary to the written policy,” Judge Huber said.It prompted the D.A. to send an unprecedented 79 Brady letters, not only writing “Captain Julie Thobaben altered a report ... which resulted in the removal of exculpatory information” -- meaning key details that could lead to exoneration of a suspect -- but that “this practice is done ‘regularly’ at the Sheriff’s department” and “evidence of any changes were not preserved.”The D.A. added, “We have no idea if the reports in the case you are defending were changed or altered in any way.”We talked with Sheriff Wilz by phone late this Monday afternoon. He told us, “We do everything according to policy” and that he holds his officers to the highest level of integrity. He says he’s working with an attorney and expects to release more information later this week.Waupaca County District Attorney Veronica Isherwood gave this statement: “The right thing to do is rarely the easy thing to do. My legal obligation is to notify defense attorneys and I have done so. I and my staff will continue our hard work and do everything in our power to seek justice for victims and protect the community from harm while honoring our legal obligations and the constitutional rights of defendants.”FIRST ALERT INVESTIGATES reached out to the Wisconsin Department of Justice to ask if it will be involved. We haven’t heard back from the DOJ at the time of this writing.
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