First of all you might want to educate yourself on what an editorial is.   Secondly, what job do you know that allows you to outright lie and still keep your job?  Not mine.   As well as it should be.  I accept  that I cannot lie on my job.  

If you don’t have a fully developed moral & mental capability to be a police officer, then you should not be one.  Especially when you have, essentially,  a license to kill.