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We're dealing with convicted felons, we're dealing with bad people, we're dealing with drug dealers, if you want these people to go to jail, you have to cross the line sometimes.
Um, let me think,
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Ex-Officer Herrera: It's not making stuff up, its doing what you gotta do to put people in jail.
Reporter: Changing the story...
Ex-Officer Herrera: *shrugs* It happens... That's all I can tell you.
Reporter: So there are no boyscout police officers doing it by the book out there?
Ex-Officer Herrera: Maybe. This isn't po-dunk Iowa, this is the City of Chicago. You gotta, you gotta do the job.
Talking about instances where him and his fellow officers would lie about a suspect's actions.
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Reporter: Was it a well known practice in SOS to write things in police reports that didn't actually happen on the scene?
Ex-Officer Herrera: Creative writing was a certain term that bosses used to make sure the job got done. I didn't just pick up a pen and leanr how to do this. Bosses, guys that I worked with that were older than I was, that had time on the job, you learn this stuff, its taught to you, this is how it's done, this isn't right, put this in there, and you gotta listen to them.
Reporter:No one said, you gotta chill out a little here...
Ex-Officer Herrera: Not once. I got high fives and honorable mentions and department commendations...
Jebus tap-dancing Christ! Yet another reason to NEVER move to Chicago!
