when they finally do officially say who the responsible party is. As it is... well...

In LA is now covering up or not reporting accurately on a major crime to a celebrity. The number of conspiracy theories germinated here are breathtaking. This kind of dark conspiracy sharing leads to people not believing anything or any authority. Rob Reiner was stabbed. I’ve seen nothing implausible that a son struggling for over a decade with heavy drug addiction would do this.

then their attestations about truth matters have little value.

Is the mundane, most likely thing plausible? Sure. It is, in fact, as noted, the most likely explanation in a mundane fashion.

But there is no reason to believe such on the say so of the fucking LAPD. That is what their record hath wrought.

And there need not be any conspiracy; not when laziness, bias, incompetence, and unprofessionalism will do.

It would be nice is the people "solving" this crime were trustworthy. Alas, they are not, much to everyone's loss. We will have to muddle through.