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For some ordinary citizens, contact with the police will be associated with very bad events, such as being a victim of a crime. For many it will be the unpleasantness of a traffic ticket. Basically, even ordinary citizens usually come into contact with police on a bad day. That can influence the citizen to act in ways that they would normally never consider.

For both officer safety reasons and legal “fair and equal treatment” reasons, all fresh bookings into jail are treated the same. Murderer or drunk driver, we treat them exactly the same because, truth to tell, just because someone got arrested for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants (DUII) doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have a bunch of bodies buried in his crawl space.

We take everyone’s shoe laces because some people attempt suicide with them. We search everyone thoroughly because some people try to get weapons and drugs into the housing units. We take off wedding rings because you may be housed in an area where someone is willing to bite your finger off for something shiny.