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I feel you're missing the point entirely: to the person who was forcibly taken into custody by police and likely didn't have a clear and confident understanding

I feel you're missing the point entirely: to the person who was forcibly taken into custody by police and likely didn't have a clear and confident understanding of their rights (a fair assumption for the general populace, I'd say), it doesn't matter what you call it.

gtirloni 7y ago
Of course it's upsetting. I don't think anyone is making the case that it's just a regular day and you shouldn't complain. The automation system needs to improve, that's blatantly obvious. And the police officers need to learn to work with it. This is what happened (detention): "I was working and the police arrived. They confounded me with someone else they were looking for and I had to go to the police station and prove I wasn't that person. What a day". Not this (arrest): ""I was working and the police arrived. They confounded me with someone else they were looking for and I had to go to the police station and prove I wasn't that person. They still didn't believe me and I'm in a jail cell waiting for a judge to hear my case. I don't think I'll be home for a few days".