> 2% of the total population arrested each year sounds like a lot! It's probably mostly people getting arrested multiple times. But yeah, there's a lot of ar

> 2% of the total population arrested each year sounds like a lot! It's probably mostly people getting arrested multiple times. But yeah, there's a lot of arrests where police in other countries would have just ID'd people and sent them on their way. Arrests are simply the default operating procedure in the US, which is likely related to the fact that the lack of reliable national ID makes it harder to identify people on the spot.