It’s bizarre and freaky to even imagine the newspapers being remotely the problem here. The problem is the significant mismatch between the stigma of being arr

It’s bizarre and freaky to even imagine the newspapers being remotely the problem here. The problem is the significant mismatch between the stigma of being arrested and the ease and frequency in which police perform arrests. Arrests do not imply guilt but arresting someone later found to be not guilty should be incredibly embarrassing for the police. But this is at odds with the unhealthy amount of vindictiveness found in many societies. You get people frothing at the mouth about how cops don’t seem to arrest people so easily. Politicians are perpetually harder on crime because that satisfies fearful minds. But the price of running a society in such a broken manner eventually comes due.