Saturday, January 27, 2007

The legal details of fake police officers

Assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest are both crimes.
Impersonating a police officer is also a crime.
If someone was impersonating a police officer and tried to arrest someone else, I think that would also be a crime beyond the fact that they're impersonating a police officer.

I wonder which crime receives the greater punishment? I wonder what happens if a real police officer tries to arrest someone, but the person being arrested has reason to believe that it isn't a real police officer and thus tries to escape, I wonder what kind of trouble they'd get in?

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