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Black Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 13 yrs Claims Philly Cops Have a Policy of Using False Statements and Fabricated Observations to Manufacture Probable Cause to Make Arrests, Searches and Prosecutions

From [HERE] A federal court in Pennsylvania allowed a resident to bring his municipal liability claims against Philadelphia after he was wrongly imprisoned for 13 years, allegedly due to a custom of allowing officers to obtain probable cause for arrests via falsehoods. His claims for failure to supervise or discipline will proceed because he plausibly demonstrated that the city knew officers would secure probable cause improperly.

Read the ruling here.