Police Power

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Police Power

Hypothetically state authorities may pass a law that lets police officers arrest anyone violating public intoxication decrees, arresting, jailing, and releasing them after ten days. Susceptibility to bias and the failure of a person to access fair trial are among the predominant factors that will highlight the faulty nature of such a rule.

Giving law enforcement officers the power to arrest and jail the drunk and disorderly denies the accused the right to a fair judicial process. Under North Carolina statutes, if a law enforcement officers apprehends a person for being drunk and disruptive, they can put that individual under protective custody by transporting that offender to a medical facility or a shelter (Mince-Didier, n.d.) For that reason, such a law guarantees a wrongdoer justice, ensuring that a person accesses help and prevents the police officers...