Jim innocent until proven guilty. And rule number one deny everything lol

The closest I ever came to being arrested was when I was having sex in a park one night. It was around 1 AM, so nobody was around. We had our fun, which did last awhile by the way. As we were getting dressed, the person who was with me said, "I see a flashlight going on the off, but it's pretty dim." We both got dressed, and I was trying my last shoe and all of a sudden 4 bright flashlights turned on pointing at us. We got the 3rd degree of what was we doing, why was we at the park blah, blah, blah. We just said we finished work (well sex IS work lol) and was just decompressing, and we did "decompress"LOL. Then then when asked why were we there so late, we pointed out the park didn't close until 2 AM, so we were not there late. I was asked why I was trying my shoe, I said, "because it came untied." Well, you do have to untie your shoes to take your clothes off lol. If they would have come back there like 3 minutes earlier, we'd still have been in the middle of the deed and hauled off to jail.

I am grateful for your service doing that. Life of a cop comes with a number of downsides. I for one would not go so far as asserting you "made many people go through it". The arrest is really the official declaration of our government that they think we did something wrong. It is rare those who do weren't a part of causing that to happen. The cop who arrested me was doing her functional duty. The jury who showed up to hear my case did their duty.

I fear society has gotten hot to the thought that arrest = guilt; and that withdrawal of ones freedom is the only proper punishment.

I was discriminated against as a child when I was 17 and was arrested on the streets of New York for just being Latino and in a poor area. They arrested about 20 of us that night and I just happened to be walking on the same block on the same street that the police decided to pick up random Latino guys hanging out. I was on my way home from work. So yes , discrimination is real.♥️♥️🥹😌
All charges were dropped and the records were tossed after many years of never being arrested ever again..

I imagine quite a few of us can recount close calls related to our park encounters.