Should the Police be punished for public deception?

2025-04-06 12:16:00, Opinione Lutfi Dervishi

In any normal country this would have happened long ago.

It's not a one-off, but deception has become a way, a line of conduct.

1. The case of Elbasan in the elections.
A murder in broad daylight, in the middle of the campaign, and the director general of the police lies publicly, lies live and nothing happens. The phrase "there were no election materials" will remain the epitaph of the "impartiality" of the police in the elections. And they lie because the truth makes the party in power look bad.
Nothing happened for this public deception.

2. The minor boy at the Lake during the pandemic.

A teenager is stopped on a bicycle. Not only is he stopped, but the police sell their act of violence as a success.

3. The mother who was "playing" with a toy gun.

A photo of the mother of the boy "caught" on a bicycle where she (the actress) has posed with a toy gun is presented as an example of a parent who does not know how to raise children. In any serious country, this is called defamation and distortion of public opinion.
In our country, it is a standard notification of the State Police.

4. The gun in the hand of the boy killed in Lapraka.
To build the image of a "dangerous suspect", the police manipulate the scene where they killed the young man.
Manipulation. Murder. Obstruction of justice.
And to take the official cynicism to the extreme, the road to the scene is named after the victim.

5. The gathering in front of SPAK by the mayor's supporters.
An event that had been announced all day, the police say: "spontaneous gathering". "We had no notice"
Was there ever a ban on this? No.
Because when it serves the government, even the law turns a blind eye.

6. "Scenario" arrests abroad.
In fact, they are random checks by local police. But the media is supplied with elaborate "news" where it is written:

"Joint police operation thanks to intelligence exchange."

Intelligence? There is no greater insult to this word. The list goes on… and we continue to be systematically deceived. The police are not simply incompetent at communication, they have become a propaganda tool, which at best justifies violence, and at worst produces it itself.

Instead of investigating the events, the police are thinking about how to sell them to the media.
Instead of maintaining order, they are preserving their own image by distorting reality.
This is not the police of a democratic state.

It is a structure that uses the stick and the lie with equal ease.

Yes, the police should be punished for public deception. Because when an armed force uses lies as a weapon, it becomes more dangerous than any gang. And when the truth is deliberately distorted by those who are supposed to protect it, then the citizen remains defenseless, not from crime, but from the state itself./ CNA