Significance of LAPD Evidence Stickers

When Bosch first examines the video of Lucia Soto and her colleagues re-opening the box containing Preston Borders' evidence, he believes he may lose the case because of the intact seals and the apparent integrity of the LAPD system (170-171). However, these apparent bastions of integrity and truthfulness were exactly what the Cronyns had manipulated in silence, meaning that the stickers carried the veneer of truth while being built on a lie.