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lemoinem t1_iya63p6 wrote

Illegal protest, disobeying a legal order, vandalism, littering, disrupting the peace, blocking traffic, any other of a list of subjective and discretionary bogged up charges.

As long as they have a "reasonable suspicion" of a crime, they can arrest you.

It's always easy to say "well the DA decided not to prosecute in the end". What is the public going to do about it? Go to the police?

Worst case, they can sue them, which would cost quite a bit of money to the individual, the court tend to cut a lot of slack to cops, then there is qualified immunity, then, even if you get damages, it's paid with public funds and there are no real consequences for the officer anyway.

A good interaction with a cop is an interaction you avoided. Protect & Serve is mostly a bad joke at that point.

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0000GKP t1_iya7z5e wrote

>Protect & Serve is mostly a bad joke at that point.

That's from the TV show. I think most agencies have never had that as their policy or motto.

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lemoinem t1_iya897w wrote

https://www.lapdonline.org/

Just saying

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0000GKP t1_iya99ct wrote

Yes, that's the one. How about the other 18,000 agencies in the US?

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lemoinem t1_iyaammf wrote

Oh yeah, editing your comment is real smart and mature. You said it was fake and just for TV, it's not and has been in consistent use since the 60's. Take the loss and move on.

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0000GKP t1_iyab1r5 wrote

I didn't edit any comments. You would see the little pencil icon or the word edited if I had.

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