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 | Evidence fabrication is harder to achieve when an adversary has less information about our lives. The need-to-know principle controls the flow of information through networks to make them more opaque to adversaries. |
| Physical intrusion detection | Planting evidence in a space often requires an adversary to covertly enter the space. With proper preparation, you can detect such a covert entry. |