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Arrestees are often shackled and held in a safe room when booking processes are overwhelming intake. There is no abuse. Access to a telephone is contingent upon cooperation with the booking process. Refusal to submit to photos and prints, which are employed to positively identify the arrested suspect, and refusal to answer booking questions or provide an ID, will qualify the subject for indefinite incarceration at a county lockup. These allegations i read in this article could be made by anyone undergoing examination upon arrest, at any police department: they, not understanding the law, and entitling themselves with rights that do not exist. There is no right to refuse answers to question like “what is your name and address’ upon arrest. They do not represent investigatory objectives, and information is not subject to 5th Amendment protection. Objectives of public justice demand that the an arrested be positively identified, for reasons obvious to anyone...including the idiot protester who thinks he is entitled to phone an attorney when not fulfilling lawfully compelled obligations to identify himself, or submit to lawfully- compelled photos and prints. This brewhaha is fabricated agitation designed to make headlines and impugn police. IMHO.

There is no right to refuse answers to question like “what is your name and address’ upon arrest.

Then why does the miranda warning start off with you have the right to remain silent? Or are you telling me that this right you are being informed of is not actually a right, that the police are lying every time they make an arrest?

I read this the other day, I agree with you.

I think this place has been around a while, couldn’t find it but it’s been mainly to take thugs to, drug dealers.

I don’t approve but cops were worse in the old days in many ways, sand-weighted gloves to hit people with. As you say, people in this facility generally aren’t even touched and released within 24 hours.

And it is from the freakin’ liberal beacon, The Guardian who is very left-wing often.

And old Mayor Daly’s Chicago, Daly called “The Boss” was notorious for heavy-handed police tactics, corruption, etc.