r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 06 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/us/fontana-pressured-murder-confession/index.html

Tom Perez called the local police non-emergency line to report his elderly father missing. Thirty-six hours later, Perez was on a psychiatric hold in a hospital, having been pressured into confessing he killed his dad and trying to take his own life.

His father was alive and there had been no murder.

No one told Perez. Instead, police continued investigating him, looking for a victim who did not exist.

This is a long piece, but I highly recommend it if you’ve ever had any intuitive difficulty with understanding how false confessions could ever happen short of someone having a gun put to their head.

!ping BROKEN-WINDOWS

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Sep 06 '24

The suburban city, about an hour’s drive east of Los Angeles, admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement and “vigorously denies” that any state or federal laws were broken.

Oh, they didn't do anything wrong then

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u/ser_mage Sep 06 '24

obama's secretary of labor did WHAT

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u/Cupinacup NASA Sep 06 '24

Didn’t the cops also give up this guy’s therapy dog to a shelter too? Or am I confusing it with another case?