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So I was having a discussion with some friends and it turned to a hand-out advertising a $5 gag where you hire the department of campus safety to mock arrest someone.
I was wondering what rights you would have if a campus police offer attempted to arrest you with no observable cause?
Would the right course of action just be to register your protest, shut up, go along, and wait for your lawyer?
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Seriously? It's got to be something like, pay them to pretend to arrest someone who is *aware* of what is going on. I can't believe they would be doing this with unwitting victims- pretty sure that would be a crime.
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If it happens to you - if you're 'arrested' by campus police, it would seem to me the right thing to do would be to cooperate (definitely don't 'register your protest, whatever the heck that means-nothing more fun than getting a 'resisting without violence'), keep quiet, and wait for your lawyer. If it turns out they were real cops, well, you've obviously done the right thing.
If they're not? You can sue the hell out of them for false imprisonment, at a minimum.
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I know in MA they are real police at the state schools. State Police, to be exact.
Register your protest if it happens for real, and then go with them to be sure. Even if they don't have actual police powers, they DO have the force of the institution with them, and there are all sorts of non-legal actions the school can impose, such as expulsion.
As far as the fund raiser you are talking about, they inform you you have been selected for "arrest", and you have the option of going with them or not. I have taken part of these things before, and they always let me know it was for the fund raiser.
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I knew a police officer while I was in High School and had a friend that used him to help ask a girl to prom.
He picked the girl up for a date, and had the police officer pull him over, had him get out of the car and handcuffed him. While my friend had his forehead on the hood of his car and the girl was freaking out, the police officer told her that he would let him go if she would go to prom with my friend.
She said yes of course, although he had a nice welt on his face the next day at school.
The campus police have nothing better to do than do little $5 gag jobs on the side?
Sounds like I need a career change.
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Is this a "jail-n-bail" fund-raiser type thing?
It was a popular one in my old home town. You'd arrange for someone to get "jailed" and they'd stay "jailed" until they either posted the "bail" themselves or called enough people to raise the required money. All of the "bail" went to a charity. My friends and co-workers had a blast doing it. I believe the situation is explained to the arrestees before they're hauled off.
We once had the fun of dragging out the bail fundraising for our supervisor so that we'd have a more relaxed shift...
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