POLL: If you are innocent untill proven guilty........?

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Then why, when cops think that you committed a crime, with no proof they still slap hand cuffs on you, place you in that back of a car, and places you in a jail cell. kind of sounds like a person being treated like a guilty person. just wondering.

for the record, this is a poll question. i have no record with the cops, and i never will. i am a 34 yr old married mother of 4 kids, and i love my life as a wife and mother.  so please just answer the question without assumptions. or accusation, and please no nasty stuff, pleas and thank you.

biohazard951753 · Accepted Answer

If it has gotten to the point that you are hand cuffed that means the cop has enough probable cause to assume you have broken a law. Probable cause is like 95% certainty that a crime is, has been, or is about to happen. 

Consider it like buying a soda. You go to the cash register and get charged. Just because you get charged doesn't mean you are going to get the soda until you pay for it. You can still change your mind and walk away but it doesn't change the fact that it looked like you were gonna get that soda. Does that make any sense?

Chelle · Answer

Because you don't have to be guilty to be handcuffed or placed in custody of the jail cell. I know it seems weird and a little a** backwards but that's just the way it works. They aren't calling you guilty by hand cuffing you. When you're in custody you are still innocent because you haven't been charged with anything yet.

Captain S · Answer

You can be arrested on suspicion of having committed a crime; it doesn't mean you are guilty. That's what trials are for.

kj · Answer

Cuz they wanna act like they're in the movies

Anonymous · Answer

sounds hypocritical to me

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POLL: If you are innocent untill proven guilty........?

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