RESPONSE POST:
Choose a topic from the reading assignment that caught your interest.-ATTACHED YOU’LL FIND READING ASSIGNMENT
Submit a post explaining that topic and what you found interesting about it.
The post must be 150 words to 250 words.
The odd-numbered posts are drafted using your own words based on the knowledge you acquired from the reading. Therefore, citations are not required, unless you are quoting; if so, then citations must be properly formatted to meet APA or Bluebook criteria.
You must submit a RESPONSE post in order to gain access to the discussion. After submitting a RESPONSE, you will then view other students’ posts, and begin engaging for your REPLY post.
REPLY POSTS :
Select a 2 fellow student’s post and elaborate.
The goal for these posts is to add substance to the overall discussion.
You might consider providing an alternative view or sharing links to online resources that bring that topic to life. Or, consider drawing a correlation between several students’ posts, In fact, anything that adds substance is acceptable.
The posts must be 150 words to 200 words.
The even-numbered posts are drafted using your own words, but with a splash of substance. To keep the discussion flowing, citations will not be required, unless you are quoting or referencing a specific source; if so, then citations must be properly formatted to meet APA or Bluebook criteria.
FELLOW STUDENTS POST:
Zure Negrin
6/2/23, 7:53 PM
NEW
When a citizen witnesses the commission of a misdemeanor, Alaska law allows that citizen to arrest the offender on the spot. A citizen making such an arrest may request the assistance of a police officer rather than physically subdue the offender alone. However, Alaska law does not clearly define how much assistance police can provide before the citizen’s arrest becomes a warrantless police arrest. That distinction is particularly important in misdemeanor arrests because Alaska follows the common law rule that citizens and officers can make warrantless misdemeanor arrests only for those misdemeanors committed in their presence. Officers cannot make warrantless misdemeanor arrests simply based on citizen reports of crime. For example, a woman sees a strange man coming out of her garage. She asks him who he is and what he is doing there. He gives her her name, says that he used to live there, and leaves. After he’s gone, she calls the police and reports what she saw, giving them the name of the intruder. The police arrive and she signs a citizen’s arrest form. Forty-five minutes after the crime, the police find the intruder in a store five miles from the woman’s home. The police arrest the suspect without a warrant and take him to jail. Meanwhile, in another part of town, store clerks witness a customer being robbed. They stop him and escort him to the front of the store. He pushes one of the employees and runs off. They call the police and report that he has run to a building across the street. A police officer arrives, chases the suspect through the building, catches him, and takes him back to the store where the clerks identify him as the thief. The officer asks the employees to sign a citizen’s arrest form and then takes him to jail. Although both cases were treated as citizen arrests, certain characteristics are different.
Reference:
Harrison, L. (2007). CITIZEN’S ARREST OR POLICE ARREST? DEFINING THE SCOPE OF ALASKA’S DELEGATED CITIZEN’S ARREST DOCTRINE. Washington Law Review, 82(2), 431. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/citizens-arrest-police-defining-scope-alaskas/docview/213104881/se-2
