I don't know why you are being downvoted. My father was a cop, went through the academy when I was 15. I distinctly remember him explaining to me about how they are taught to lie to get people to cross their stories up.

Eric Adams, the brilliant detective.

I think the objection was to the centrality of lying and intent.

My home contractors might lie to me, but that certainly is not what I hired them to do

I'm assuming your father did more than just tell tall tales.

The job is not lying. If anything, lying is a situational means to an end.

We can argue against that fact without resorting to hyperbole and twisting reality ourselves