Betrayal
No one likes to be betrayed. However, that is what happened when police in England falsified and changed testimony to make victims look bad and distract others from more critically analyzing police action. On April 15, 1989, 96 Liverpool soccer fans died in the infamous Hillsborough Stadium disaster. A recently released report concluded that the police had changed 116 witness statements to remove information damaging to police and that officials tried to discredit witnesses by digging-up negative information about them. What a shame that the Police did not do the right thing for all the victims and their families. They also threw a wrench into the vaulted Green Guide developed in the wake of such disasters in that some recommendations were based on what police concluded and now we should go back to make sure the Green Guide was in fact accurate.