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Both police officers and prosecutors are not trained to lie, we are trained to the opposite. I was a police officer and am now a prosecutor. I wasn't power hungry in either position. Justice needs to be administered and it sounds like most of the people posting to this website are the usual people that think that they don't have to be accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, many defense attorneys are much more corrupt and dishonorable. They file frivolous Constitutional motions when there is no basis for the claim. They accuse prosecutors and police officers of lying simply because they are willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get their clients off. The system isn't as bad as you portray it to be. Of course, there are good and bad people in every profession, but to portray the entire class of attorneys who are employed as prosecutors as corrupt is to exhibit pure foolishness. In my office, ethical behavior is prized as the number one priority. Those in supervisory positions often teach classes in ethical behavior for the profession as a whole. We are bound by a much higher code than our opponents, who often want to deceive us and portray hardened criminals as saints that we should be sympathetic to.