# Taking a cop's word in law enforcement incidents **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 16, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-cops-word-in-law-enforcement-incidents/695717 "2014-08-16T22:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 63
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-cops-word-in-law-enforcement-incidents/695717/63 "2014-08-22T14:13:09Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > When I was wrongly arrested for alleged DUI, after I described my route, the officer asserted that I had to have driven at least 5 miles with my car lights off, so after I was released, I went home and measured the actual distance traveled on my city map. The distance was approximately 1/2 a mile on a well-lit road, so you can’t take everything an officer says for truth. There’s a somewhat famous case out of Hollywood, Florida, in which a veteran officer with a history of damaging his patrol car rearended a parked car and decided to arrest that driver rather than taking the blame and getting in trouble yet again. That officer got two other veteran officers and a departmental civilian employee to back him up. Luckliy for that driver, [the officers forgot that the dash-cam was on](http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Cops-Set-Up-Woman-After-Crash.html). All four have since been fired. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-cops-word-in-law-enforcement-incidents/695717)._