Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale also asks police to arrest students caught for shoplifting, Willoughby said. The Coop refers students to College authorities but does not call in the police...
...could be censored or even closed by simple decree, private travel and public gatherings could be banned, and such institutions as bars and beer halls closed down. Even worse, according to the 24-page official document outlining the government's emergency powers, "any police officer may, without warrant, arrest and detain any person of whom he has reason to believe there are grounds which would justify his detention...
Mother and son appealed on the grounds that every citizen has a common-law right to resist false arrest. A policeman, they argued, may make an arrest for a misdemeanor only if he has a warrant or if the offense is committed in his presence. In this case, the cops had neither excuse. And New Jersey's second highest court has just reversed the Koonces' convictions. In so doing, though, it barred all further resistance to false arrest in New Jersey. Historically, the court noted, the right arose in a day when arrest was well worth fighting...
...urbanized society." It just about guarantees "escalation into bloodshed" -and is unnecessary at a time when the rights of the accused are being constantly expanded. As a result: "We declare it to be the law of this state that a private citizen may not use force to resist arrest by one he knows or has good reason to believe is an authorized police officer, whether or not the arrest is illegal...
What the judges made law in New Jersey is already in statutes in California, Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. In those states, the falsely arrested citizen has no choice but to go along peacefully and hope to even the score later with a suit for damages. Latest average award in false-arrest actions against policemen...