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mistaken arrests aren’t slander
by whimsicalism 2y ago
mistaken arrests aren’t slander
- michaelmrose 2y agoFrom the story. "Within less than a minute, I'm approached by a store worker who comes up to me and says, 'You're a thief, you need to leave the store'." Knowing that one in 40 people so flagged aren't guilty of a crime means they are deliberately imposing upon those so flagged. The choice to use a faulty tech isn't itself a mistake its a choice. EG if you exposed a million people to this tech daily you would falsely arrest 11,000 people.
- ajb 2y agoIn the UK, only police ('sworn constables') have legal protection when conducting an arrest. Ordinary people conducting a 'citizens arrest' are committing a crime if they make a mistake (false imprisonment). Store workers are not usually sworn constables. In any case, the article is not about an arrest. Making someone leave is not an arrest, it's the opposite (an arrest is detaining someone).