Investigating Allegations of Police Torture

When acts of torture are used, sponsored, or tolerated by government agents, it is an abuse of authority. What's more, it is an effective demonstration of cruelty evidencing cultural and institutional tyranny. This is perhaps why there is no better mechanism for inducing resentment, mistrust, and then active resistance from those who suffer its effects. It also renders any information subsequently gathered completely unreliable—to include accusations and confessions alike. The results of torture are not just lawfully inadmissible, but empirically untrustworthy.