thompsonconnor357
Member
What is citizen's arrest? How does it work?
As Sweetheart stated above, that's what a citizen's arrest is.
Now the terms per state are different, and scary. I don't get how if you're stopping a crime you could be sued for it, that just doesn't make sense in my book. I feel if the regulations were more clear and welcoming for citizen's to help stop crime in their neighborhoods, a lot less deaths and injuries would occur.
However you face the possible risk of civillian injury, but if you think of it... stopping someone who could kill a number of people later now and not face risk of "false imprisonment" and "being sued" alot more people would be open to help out police, including me.
But wasn't Richard Ramirez taken down by a citizen's arrest? Didn't a group of guys in the neighborhood chase him and beat him down and then held him for the police? Okay, and then George Zimmerman did a civilian shooting on a black teenager minding his own business, and Zimmerman wasn't sued and was even acquitted.