Law enforcement officers, have you ever had to serve a warrant or arrest someone, when you disagreed with?

Question

doing so or felt compassion for the person being served? ( I rmeber when that one guy shot the man who molested his child in the airport,who was being brought back on charges. and thought , gee I bet the cop hated to arrest him for it!).

Answer 1

It happens all the time. I've never arrested a single person I thought may be innocent, but I've arrested a lot of people I felt sorry for. I give breaks whenever I can, but if you do the crime, you have to be willing to do the time.

The other thing to remember is that a warrant is an order from a judge. In my state, warrants all say "You are hereby commanded to take this person into custody and bring him to my court." That means if I don't arrest them, I could technically be found in contempt of court and jailed.

Answer 2

Yes, mostly DV (domestic violence) cases because the state I serve in has a mandatory arrest police when police are called for a DV. In mostly all the DV cases I've investigated, there is absolutely no evidence a crime was committed, no injury to the caller, no damage to property, ect., but the caller is mad at there mate (most of the time it's to boyfriend, no ones married anymore) because the girlfriend might have seen the boyfriend with another woman, the police are called, a lie is told and because of the state law of mandatory arrest dictates what we do, a person is innocently arrested or a warrant issued for that persons arrest. It's that don't mess with me law because I can call the police and say you battered me.
Now Domestic Violence is serious as no one deserves to be a victim of DV, but police discretion is removed when policy dictates an arrest be made with no evidence is not present.

Answer 3

anybody is incorrect so some distance. The fourth exchange won't be implicated right here. someone who isn't a resident interior the homestead often has no fourth exchange protections, so no seek warrant is mandatory by the law enforcement officers to bypass in an arrest as to the boyfriend. whilst an over night centred visitor would have a valid expectation of privateness under the 4th exchange, someone who's in simple terms there probably does not. right here, you had the place of residing, not the boyfriend. The boyfriend, whom i assume became not residing there or staying in one day, has no expectation of privateness under the Fourth exchange. The rights violated are your rights, not his, yet you have not have been given any status to whinge, in view which you weren't the only arrested. Now, had the law enforcement officers entered your place and located drugs sitting on your kitchen table, which could be a different tale. of course, if the medicine belonged to you AND your boyfriend, the medicine could be suppressed as to you, yet not your boyfriend, in view which you have an expectation of privateness and he did not. in spite of the reality that, if the law enforcement officers are in warm pursuit, they might enter your house of residing, see the medicine, after which you does not be able to suppress the medicine. yet quite often, the warrant is mandatory if the law enforcement officers prefer to acquire evidence of someone who has a valid expectation of privateness at the place of residing the law enforcement officers prefer to seek. If the boyfriend have been staying there in one day, he would have an expectation of privateness, so the arrest could be undesirable. A seek of the place of residing to discover him violating the order could be undesirable. If the restraing order became nevertheless in place, he had no expectation of privateness whether he became making plans on spending the night. He wasn't meant to be there and doubtless he knew that.

Answer 4

Several times. But I took a lesson from the people that arrested the guy that killed that slimebag Miranda. They didn't give him his Miranda Rights and helped him walk.

Answer 5

yes I have.....but I'm not the judge or jury