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> apprehending someone just for them to be released hours later Should this not be the expectation for low-level/nonviolent offenses, under the presumption of
by macNchz 2y ago
> apprehending someone just for them to be released hours later
Should this not be the expectation for low-level/nonviolent offenses, under the presumption of innocence?
- garrettgarcia 2y agoIt's not releasing them that is the issue. It's that the charges are dropped.
- creer 2y agoSome San Francisco Bay Area police departments were whining also recently that minor crimes spread out in different cities and counties made the work harder. And celebrated a case where they HAD done the work and arrested a group for spread out offenses. Release after a minor arrest should be as expected of course. In most isolated offenses, not even an arrest preferably even - since "arrest" can come with massive baggage in the US. It's refusing to even bother collecting records, documenting, tracking, and in the end arrests which means that the initial offences essentially did not exist. So that the next offenses are still initial offenses - and don't exist.