Comments on: The wrong guy

By: Denver mistaken-identity arrests

Denver mistaken-identity arrests — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:56:34 +0000

[…] may not be as numerous as L.A.’s, but they include some individual doozies [Denver Post via Radley Balko; […]

By: roy in nipomo

roy in nipomo — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:11:42 +0000

A question I have is that does it count as a “false arrest” (for purposes of the article) if a person, suspecting they have a warrant for their arrest, gives a friend’s or relative’s name and is incorrectly arrested on the other person’s warrant. This is far from an uncommon occurrence.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:25:52 +0000

My question would be how many people they put someone in jail per day?

By: ras

ras — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:22:24 +0000

How does L.A. County’s error rate, re mistaken identity, compare to other cities’ with similar crime rates?

By: Jack Olson

Jack Olson — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:08:42 +0000

Wonder how many of those falsely arrested are victims of identity theft. Since identity theft is one of the favorite crimes of illegal aliens and Los Angeles has hundreds of thousands of them, I wouldn’t be surprised if that were a large source of the problem.

By: John Rohan

John Rohan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:04:03 +0000

This article says nothing about what is really fueling this problem. When you have millions of illegal immigrants in your state, many (if not most) of whom are using some kind of stolen identity in order to work, then these problems are going to happen. Of course since the LA Times is a huge cheerleader in support of illegal immigration, they aren’t going to mention this.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:10:48 +0000

And don’t forget the corollary of “why not talk to us if you have nothing to hide?”

By: Andreas Moser

Andreas Moser — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:54:03 +0000

Yet people still say “He must have done something wrong, if he has been arrested”. It’s sad that the presumption of innocence is not ingrained in our minds.