>>>Not always that simple. Nobody ever got locked up who didn't deserve to be? You're kidding, right?
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>>Nobody ever got locked up by ME that didn't deserve it. And let's agree that stuff happens, and some saints have been arrested in the past. What's the harm for them having to be sequestered a few hours in a holding facility? Not much.
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>I've never heard a cop ever admit they locked up someone who didn't deserve it. Every week I hear about another guy getting released after spending years and years locked up because they found out he didn't do it. You listen to the interviews with the cops and they all say things like "I was just doing my job" or "I still think It was the right guy" ..etc etc etc. Some of it is just so funny to watch because it's soooo obvious the guy didnt do it, but the cops and investigators simply refuse to admit they messed up.
>As far as the harm in holding someone in a faciility for a few hours that shouldn't be there - I think there is HUGE harm in this. Violates civil rights and is not what this country stands for. You just can't wisk someone away without cause and stick them in a secret facility for a few hours - sounds a lot like Nazi Germany too me!

I didn't say the people would be held unfairly. I said fairly. I've arrested people, then unarrested them, as have many of my officers, who I supervised. It was standard practice on warrant arrests, when we thought we had the right person, but they protested. We would take them downtown and have them fingerprinted, then run the prints through the AFIS computer. Many times it was the right guy, but many times it wasn't, and we transported them back to their house, made an entry into the system and explained why we did what we did.