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In reply to the discussion: The Starbucks thing... [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I know, you will grow around buzzwords like community policing- this isnt anything to do with this. Community Policing is about building bridges and building trust in the community. Its not about second guessing calls for service or trying to play judge.
When the cops are called for a trespassing call there are only two things they need to investigate. First is to determine if the person calling has the legal authority to trespass a person from that property. A business manager does. Second is if the people are still there.
If so, then the next step is to formally trespass the people and tell them the business/property owner/manager wants them to leave.
It isnt their job to argue about fairness or try and talk the owner/manager into letting them leave. Its their job to enforce the law as written.
Now, when the person is asked to leave if they do then its all over. A report is done, they go on their way.
If they refuse orders from law enforcement to leave after being told that they are trespassed from that property, then by continuing to remain on the premises they are violating the law. That leaves the cops no alternative but to detain them and remove them.
Now, was the manager 100% in the wrong here? Absolutely. But thats an issue to be settled in the courts, not by the cops. The cops are not judges and are not the judicial system.