Lying in general, no. Lying in a variety of specific, legally defined, contexts (police reports, SEC filings, sworn testimony, etc.), yes, yes indeed.
Now, the fact that an officer was actually charged for falsifying a report concerning an arrest (accusing somebody whose camera didn’t have a flash mounted of totally, like, menacing him with the flash was a nice touch) is crazy rare. They don’t call what happens when an officer takes to the stand ‘testilying’ for nothing…
