it’s patently unconstitutional for a police agency to invoice a person for an investigation that lead to zero criminal charges being brought to court ... should this actually become the norm, no one in this country will ever be safe from police persecution and harassment ...
The minute you go to the cops....making up a fake story that invokes dozens (if not hundreds) of man-hours...I think the invoice becomes a necessity. I would agree, give the guy a choice of spending three months in county jail, or paying the amount of money.
The sad thing about this fake story plot, is that maybe ten-percent of cop report might fall into this category.
“it’s patently unconstitutional for a police agency to invoice a person for an investigation that lead to zero criminal charges being brought to court “
Just what are you smoking? The fact that a prosecutor decided against prosecution of a series of crimes charged by a local grand jury doesn’t mean that what actually happened, didn’t happen! How you can conflate this with some notion that it would promote persecution by the police is ludicrous.