Leaning Right: “Well, a statement like that really does need to be investigated. So send a couple of cops over to the kid’s house, and talk to him. But jail him? No way.”
You’re absolutely right. What’s wrong with people (and police) these days? Don’t police bother doing a bit of information gathering before they jail people? Apparently not.
I've got a perfect example that just happened to my 16 year old son yesterday. He was at the park near our house on his bike. He still had his GoPro attached even though the battery had died. He was riding around the park. My younger son and daughter went over to meet him. Someone called the police that he was filming children. I think even if he had been filming children it wouldn't have been illegal, but he wasn't. The camera was on his bike and dead. A policeman came over to talk to him. My daughter, in tears, and other son came running home that he was being questioned by police. After talking with police, the police had common sense and could see he was doing nothing wrong, and everything was cleared up. But what if the police didn't have common sense?