> 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?
Should this not be the expectation for low-level/nonviolent offenses, under the presumption of innocence?
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.