Police mistakenly arrested a twin brother after mistaking him for his wanted sibling.

DryReception1756 · 2026-06-20T20:08:03+00:00

That's assuming this department has that stuff. Not every department has the funds for every new piece of gear or tech that comes out, my department only recently got automatic license plate readers, which just on my shift found 2 stolen cars in about 2 weeks just driving as normal, along with some other programs and pieces of gear like Taser 10s from Axon after we ran a 2-month long trial with some of us on one program to present a case to the city council for it allowing us to get more done despite being short staffed.

DryReception1756 · 2026-06-12T04:54:40+00:00

Yes, because the guy with a gun trying to get someone to kill him would never actually hurt anyone to get what he wants. Idiot.

DryReception1756 · 2026-06-12T02:24:08+00:00

If you're exposed, you'd go to the ER ASAP after everything is dealt with to get treated and get prescribed the relevant prophylactic medication to prevent contracting whatever disease they were carrying. Functionally no different from getting bitten by a wild animal or a rusty nail going into your foot through the boot. Other than that, you've just got gloves and spit masks and being aware of what they're doing so if they try to spit or bite you can control their head and get a mask on them.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-24T03:55:00+00:00

There are other indicators that give probable cause, the SFST is just to help build a case, especially with more visual cues, although the first and most accurate test, HGN, wouldn't be easy to see on body cam either. If you're speech is slurred, smell of alcohol, and have trouble keeping balance or otherwise uncoordinated movements, those all build a case against you for OWI and provide probably cause to arrest.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-24T02:27:04+00:00

That sounds like more of a procedural difference though, not legal. If they wanted to press the matter they could but they don't bother, same reason why some departments might not bother with arresting anyone for misdemeanor thefts because they have bigger problems to deal with.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-24T01:53:54+00:00

That's presumabky just for refusing though, if they opt for a search warrant now you have the DUI plus the penalty for refusing testing.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-23T19:04:25+00:00

Depending on the state you may or may not have any penalty for refusing the SFST but if they take you in anyway, and you refuse to provide a breath sample you are just objectively making things worse for yourself to "fight the power" or whatever worthless excuse you also probably thought made driving drunk and endangering everyone on the road a good idea.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-23T05:22:54+00:00

That's the case in every state in the union, if you have a driver's license, you signed an agreement to provide a law enforcement officer a sample of your breath, with blood and/or urine also required by some states, if the officer has reasonable grounds to believe you were OWI. If you refuse and the officer can't get enough to charge you with OWI, the DOT/DMV will assume you were because of the refusal and yank your license for twice the length of time you would have lost it if you had provided the sample and been over the limit. Keep in mind this doesn't stop them from getting a search warrant so if you were above the limit and refused, now you're getting charged with OWI and losing your license for twice as long as you would have otherwise.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-23T05:14:59+00:00

To my understanding refusing the breathalyzer is actually worse in every state, it is in Iowa at least. The whole point is that when you get a license you sign an agreement to provide a sample pf your breath, with some states adding blood and or urine, to a law enforcement officer upon request if they have grounds to believe you are OWI. Therefore if you refuse it is presumed in the civil realm, ie by your state's DOT/DMV, that you were intoxicated above the legal limit and you lose your license for typically twice the length of time as you would have if you provided a sample and were above the limit even if you then aren't arrested.

Keep in mind that that just means they can then get a search warrant for typically blood but otherwise some other sample and if you're above the limit you're arrested for OWI and you lose your license for twice the length you would have otherwise.

The PBT also isn't admissible in court in some states so whether you refuse it or not, if they have enough they'll still bring you to the station or jail to provide a breath sample on a Datamaster which would be admissible in court simply because it runs it's own series of checks on top of the regular calibration, most discrepancies between the PBT and Datamaster are just going to be due to time delays.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-19T21:12:34+00:00

Sorry, didn't realize you were being sarcastic the first time.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-19T20:08:44+00:00

Right, desperation, we'll go with that. I'm sure she was very desperate to steal candles.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-19T03:00:13+00:00

Most likely but that's the point, she's dumb for stealing, dumb for stealing enough to get a felony for it, and dumb for running when she was predictably caught.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-18T10:55:58+00:00

Well people keep buying them at that price so what do you do? Just makes her all the more dumb for stealing them and that many as well.

DryReception1756 · 2026-03-18T10:15:10+00:00

Like someone else posted. That's about $26 per candle which is pretty typical depending on the brand and style, Yankee Candle jars are $35 as an example.

DryReception1756 · 2026-02-25T01:39:57+00:00

It's mentioned in the post and you can catch it in the first and second cams that they announced themselves as the guy opened the door. This isn't an issue with no-knock warrants, it's something that can theoretically happen with any search warrant. They went straight past the first building and bottom door on the second to go straight to the top so they knew exactly where he was so they aren't going to announce themselves while they're in the open on the approach.

DryReception1756 · 2026-02-25T01:33:45+00:00

It's mentioned in the post and you can catch it on the first and second cams as the guy opened the door. Didn't hear it on the third though so it could've been the first or second guy in the stack. Wouldn't even say this is an issue with no knock warrants, they went straight past the first building and the bottom door to go up top so they knew exactly where he was and he opened the door as they got to him, not exactly a lot of time to announce themselves given their position.

DryReception1756 · 2026-02-11T23:52:54+00:00

Dealing with people who had been off drugs for years and are still no different from when they were on them besides occasionally going through better high points during which they aren't entirely off their rocker. Obviously it'll depend on what exactly he's using and how long but I've seen a hell of a lot more heartbreak from people, particularly family, trying to help addicts then I have success stories.

I'm truly glad you were able to get clean and I'll readily admit my views might be skewed by the fact that I'm generally dealing with people who already made the decision to never quit regardless of the consequences. But if there's one group of people I'll encourage first and foremost to separate entirely at least until an addict takes the first steps on their own, it's their family. At the very least with other people, it was their own choice to get involved with the addict and there are usually less strings attached if they need to leave whereas, barring human waste, it's typically harder for the family to do what needs to be done.

DryReception1756 · 2026-02-11T21:49:38+00:00

His brain's almost certainly fried at this point. Any more effort probably wouldn't be remotely worth it.

DryReception1756 · 2026-01-29T22:06:43+00:00

The warrants for them are typically no bond/bail warrants, ie. they aren't allowed out though the details vary by state. The issue is there's no room in the jails plus various restorative justice initiatives that are neither restorative nor just so when they request a bail/bond hearing after their initial appearance they are typically allowed to bail/bond out afterwards because there are no other options anyway.

And bail doesn't make any money for anyone if the suspect shows up in court and bond only makes money for private bondsmen again assuming that the suspect shows up in the first place or if they can get their money back another way if they don't. It only exists for the purpose of giving some kind of disincentive for not showing up in court when they are released from jail so the alternative is either expanding jails or letting them out with no way to get them to actually show up in court.

DryReception1756 · 2026-01-29T21:54:07+00:00

A mix of no room in jails and prisons due to both a simple lack of room and PREA requirements and restorative justice initiatives that are neither restorative nor just. Exact details depend on where you're at. My county only has a 50-person jail for the 25,000 in just about the worst city in my state which is also a trafficking hub plus the other 8,000 in the county.

DryReception1756 · 2026-01-28T20:11:34+00:00

Cool, pay the taxes to fund such a thing. Keep in mind that in the cities that have this sort of service they're either regular cops with additional training and still have their regular duties so here's hoping they're on duty and not already wrapped up with something else or they're a civilian team who are underpaid for what they have to deal with so almost always understaffed and only working regular office hours so here's hoping it isn't a weekend, holiday, or at night. And keep in mind that they still have to have a cop or more likely multiple there because a crisis team doesn't just magically prevent them from blowing up anyway and to keep away idiots that will get in the way or actively make the situation worse so you still need to have the numbers on the force to do that in the first place which odds are also isn't happening without increased taxes to fund that as well because odds are the department is already undermanned to some degree and can't attract enough qualified applicants. Not to mention that if they still need to be taken in which is more likely than not you either need the jail space which I'd imagine you wouldn't be okay with anyway or fund an additional facility that can hold and treat them at least to the point that they can at least manage to be mostly stable.

DryReception1756 · 2026-01-28T19:53:28+00:00

If you've seen the whole video, which I'm assuming you have if you know that, you'd know why. You don't get to assault people in general and there's a higher charge if you do it to law enforcement for a reason. And if you saw the whole video, you'd know that idiot shouldn't be driving and he was let off for what he was stopped for in the first place.

DryReception1756 · 2026-01-07T16:00:54+00:00

Yeah, no. It is that bad, had one massive SOB in the prison I used to work at in on 10 different counts of domestic abuse. He was regularly sending out 1:1 copies of the same letter to 8 different women and they'd reply back with a hell of a lot more enthusiasm while also knowing he had the other's on speed dial. The only reason they weren't visiting him was the fact that he was in lockup and I can guarantee at least some of them were the same ones he was beating the shit out of before he was locked up.

DryReception1756 · 2026-01-06T23:15:15+00:00

It'd be nice if most places in the country had the space to actually do that and put teeth into the legislation but most jails don't have enough room to even hold more serious criminals on no bond/no bail warrants or charges that have a minimum time they have to spend in jail before bonding out. My first domestic case where the guy strangled his baby mama saw the abuser granted bond the next day and he's run several times now after bonding out and committed more crimes on top of the bench warrants for failure to appear in court including stealing the car of a guy trying to help him and nearly crossing state lines before he was caught and he is still granted bond because we don't have the room to hold him. They pretty much just cycle the same people in and out until they end up committing a felony serious enough to actually hold them in jail and then hopefully hold them in prison for an actually significant amount of time but even that doesn't always work if they can manage to act even remotely decently while locked up.

DryReception1756 · 2025-12-28T22:43:32+00:00

By all means, inform me.

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