This comes as no surprise to public defenders like myself. But more importantly, it comes as no surprise to the people of the Bronx. If you talk to the residents of this community, they will tell you that police lie all the time. They lie to cover up abuse. They lie to hide the existence of informants. They lie to increase their arrest numbers. They will also tell you that they lie to justify the daily unlawful stops, searches and arrests that are the hallmark of "broken windows" policing.