265
MISTAKES WERE M A D E (but IIO! by me)
2004. Druliner's quote is in Mark Sauer and John Wilkens, "Tuite Found Guilty of Manslaughter," Th� San Dj�o Union· Tribzm�, May 27. 2004. U Deanna Kuhn, Michael Weinstock, and Robin F1aton (1994), "How Well Do Jurors Ikason? Competence Dimensions of Individual Variation in aJuror Reasoning Task,"
Psychological Sci�nu,
5. pp. 289-296.
14 Don DeNevi and John H. Campbell (2004), Into Ih� Minds o fMadmm: How tht FBll &havioral Scimu Unit Rroolutioniud Crimt In�tigation.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, p. 33. This book is, unintentionally, a case study of (he unsciemific (raining of (he FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. IS
Quoted in Tracy,
Who Ki/kd Sttphani� Crowe? p. 184; note I I .
w; Quoted on CBS's Ep 10 E� with Connie Chung (1994). 17 Introductory comments by Steven Drizin, "Prosecutors Won't Oppose Tan· k1eff's Hearing," Tlu N�w •
Edward Humes (1999),
York Tinm on tht Web, May 13, 2004. Mean }ustict. New York: Pocket Books. p. 181.
" Andrew ]. McClurg (1999), "Good Cop. Bad Cop: Using Cognitive Disso· nance Theory to Reduce Police Lying," U. C
Davis Law Rrview, 32, pp. 389-
453. First quote, p. 394; second, p. 429.
10
i so common that it. too. has spawned a new term: "dropsy" This excuse s
testimony. David Heilbroner, a former New York assistant dimict attorney. wrote: "In dropsy cases, officers justify a search by the oldest of means: they lie about the faCts. As I WaJ coming around the comer I saw the defmdanl drop
the drog1 on the sidewalk, so ! arrested him. It was an old line known
to every·
one in the justice system. One renowned federal judge many years ago com· plained that he had rcad the same testimony in too many cases for ir (0 be believed any longer as a maner of law," David Heilbroner (1990).
tiu: DaJl and Nights ofa Young D.A. New York: :II
Rough }us
Pantheon. p, 29.
McClurg, "Good Cop. Bad Cop, " note 19, p. 391, quoting from the City
of New York Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the Anti�Corruption Procedures of the Police Department: Commission Re· port 36 (1994). referred ro as the Mollen Commission Report. 11
Norm Stamper (2005).
ofAmerican Policing,
Brtaking Rank: A Top Cops Exposl ofthe Dark Side
New York: Nation Books. See also "Let Those Dopers
Be," Stamper's op�d essay for the
Los Angeks Timn, October 16, 2005.
13
Quoted in McClurg, uGood Cop. Bad Cop. " note 19. pp. 413, 415.
l'
In Suffolk County, New York, in September 1988, homicide detective K
James
McCready was summoned to a home where he found the body of
AIlene Tankldf. who had been stabbed and beaten ro death. and her husband.