Evidence fabrication is the creation of fake evidence, or the falsification of existing evidence, to incriminate a target.
Notable examples of evidence fabrication include:
- Lying in a police report.
- Planting incriminating materials. For example, police in Baltimore (United States) were unaware that their body cams continued to record after being turned off and recorded themselves planting drugs in a suspect's bag. Depending on the context, such evidence fabrication can be either common or rare.
- The common practice of investigators, prosecutors, and judges to “make up a story”, by assembling facts and theories to fit their predetermined hypothesis about a case. This widespread strategy is one of the reasons why it is important to prevent cops from gathering any information about you, because enough information (even mundane information) can be woven into a narrative for their purposes.
Depending on the context, evidence fabrication can be common or rare.
Used in tactics: Incrimination
Mitigations
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Need-to-know principle | You can apply the need-to-know principle to limit the information an adversary has about your life, and therefore make it harder for the adversary to fabricate evidence. |
| Physical intrusion detection | An adversary often needs to covertly enter a space to plant evidence in the space. You can use physical intrusion detection to detect such a covert entry. |