Do you believe the congresswoman who recently threw a cellphone and hit a policeman should have been arrested?
437159
Yes, she assaulted an officer.
685509
Ratboy is absolutely right.  Those cops should be punished.  If you have any evidence you should call your state's bureau of investigation and report it.\n\nPlease don't let them get away with it.
280657
hell no . . . unless it is to beat the daylights out of her . . . then you should go to jail.
583963
Did they forget that 99 percent of 911 calls are dealt with in the right way.\n\n I'm sorry for the boy's loss. I think that the dispatcher should be fired and in some way have to take care of the child. Is the whole system to blame or just that one person. \n\nWhat about all the crank calls we all know the 911 system gets. Shouldn't the crank callers be fined and held accountable. \n\nThe real problem is that with so many people crying wolf it is hard for dispatchers to discern which are real emergencies and which are not. She made the wrong choice and a poor boy lost his mom. It really comes down to the fact that there is no real deterrent for the crank calls. If the dispatcher hadn't had to deal with them she may have taken the boy at his word.
919211
I'd just like to see her in jail period. The spoiled ungrateful B**ch.\nAnd Cat fights are good too. So yes, yes I would.
17434
Congressmen do a lot of casework; this might be somewhere to bring in someone with a little more power than you probably have yourself.\n\nMedia also can work wonders.  If you can prove that this is in fact going on, there's a good chance that bad media coverage will either get them to change their ways from embarrassment, or get ousted thanks to public outrage.\n\nFinally, you could appeal any decisions made under such circumstances to a higher court.
1181344
Delay did no wrong in the 1st place, not to metnion the evidence of Nancy Pelosi commiting the same crimes Tom Delay was accused of was even stronger than evidence against Delay.\n\nBut low and behold Pelosi was not charged and she condemned her rival for things she is Guilty of herself.\n\nThen again the Democrats have the policy of "do as I say, not as I do."
475632
It's morally incorrect, even though it may be a relatively minor offense compared to some of the things we see happen these days.\n\nPlease be considerate and respect people enough not to harass them over the phone.\n\nI suggest listening to Weird Al's song, "Phony Calls."
1112494
Unfortunately, we don't have your friend's information to go on here, so this is going to be a guess.\n\nDepending on what the alleged harassment was over the phone, it could have been a felony.  Felonies typically allow for arrests under circumstances that are a little less "demanding" than lesser crimes, so the police may have taken advantage of that extra latitude.\n\nI can see a few possibilities:\n\nYour friend admitted to making the call (not admitted to making harassing statements - though maybe she did - just admitted to making the call).  People admit to things like this all the time, without realizing they're putting themselves that much closer to the crime.\n\nThere was a witness to the call (you said she borrowed the phone from her boyfriend, so he might have told the police something about the call) or there was someone at the other end who recognized your friend's voice and/or heard what was said.\n\nThe police might have checked the boyfriend's cell phone and found a call from his phone was made to the other phone (cell phones have call logs, right?).\n\nAnd those things could have very well added up to probable cause to make a felony arrest.  It's not a great case, in my opinion, but it could certainly be enough for an arrest.  \n\nIt's also possible the police might even have better evidence than what I thought of, and that would only make the arrest even more appropriate\n\nAnd it's worth pointing out that he said/she said situations like this happen all the time, and arrests are made without "proof" all the time.  The standard for making an arrest isn't proof beyond a reasonable doubt, it's probable cause...which is considerably less than beyond a reasonable doubt.  So while taking one person's word about something might be enough for an arrest, it's probably going to be nowhere near enough for a conviction in the absence of any other information.
966805
she was reported for asking goofy questions on Yahoo Answers ;)\n\nThose Yahoo State Troopers are ruthless.
875180
i dont think its worng...depends y the police brutality is happening
681712
Civil court orders should be enforced by the police.  If you are talking about a protective order (order of protection), then the answer is a yes.  They should have arrested her for the violation.\n\nContact your court and request a hearing with the judge to advise him/her that the police are refusing to enforce his/her orders.
1115541
Politics aside, I don't think so.  She believes that Americans are basically idiots and we need to be saved from ourselves.  She would have us all wearing helmets in the shower before you know what happened.
904246
This sounds fishy to me...No body has to pay the police not to get arrested.  sounds like fraud.  Just let them arrest her, and when she gets to holding, tell them that she is entitled to a public defender.  that is free to people who are unable to pay
1171612
no.  in the long run, it would be better to have evidence than to also get the crap beaten out of yourself and probably arrested.
133913
When public safety is not genuinely threatened, and the suspect poses no particular risk of attempting to escape, the police have the option of handling the arrest and that the less obtrusive, less obvious way.  Assuming that this mother posed no particular immediate threat to anyone, the officers should have handled the arrest in the way least disturbing to the school community.  Unfortunately, an illegal alien is far less entitled to civil rights protection than a legalized citizen (under the law, not a reflection of my personal opinion), so there really isn't much that she can do about it.  If your child saw what happened, however, you should probably speak with him or her to reduce the chances that he or she will be afraid of police generally, or that the police will take Mommy away.  Please be careful, however, not to project too much disapproval for the police, or your child may get the wrong message.
820891
I am a police officer and I don't always arrest for possession of marijuana.  Sometimes, I just make some poor pot head who spent his last 40 bucks on a bag of weed, who should have spent it on milk and diapers for his kid, sprinkle it out on the side of the road.  \n\nBut to answer your question, no. I respect officers who use their head and use their discretion wisely, not just make arrests because they can.