>Now I know jurisprudence dictates that a man is innocent until proven guilty, but in these cases the man hasn't been named, and whoever is driving IS "the perpetrator". He's not suspected of doing it - he's just been seen doing it, no matter who he is.
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>On the other hand, in similar British shows it always irks me when the cop is relating to camera what's happened and refers to the, say, vicious, drunken, foul-mouthed low-life as "The gentleman was seen clubbing the innocent man with a spiked baseball bat ..."

Maybe he was doing it gently... I guess that's what the cotton club was invented for.