When we ran warrants for officers, they’d always check the birthdate and other details if the suspect had ID on them. Some of the time, people who knew they had warrants would lie and say they were their brother but then it turned out that the brother had warrants too.
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Oh yeah, there is a famous (among law enforcement circles) “twin brother duo” in Texas with this exact same M.O.
If it’s not the right guy, or if you just don’t know for sure, you have to let them go, I think.
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Jesus Christ, what assholes. This is just the most basic level of competency, and yet it happens regularly. People share names. It’s not particularly rare, even if you have an uncommon name. (In real life, I’ve never run across someone outside my family with the same last name, yet internet searches tell me there’s quite a few people with my exact name.) If you don’t do the most basic checks to see if the person you’re arresting is the person being sought, you shouldn’t have that job. (Or, frankly, any job that requires cognitive function.)
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This case should take ten minutes in an equitable system:
Judge to cops: What steps did you take to verify she was the correct person before you arrested her?
Cops: Errrrm… we asked her her name?
Judge: Judgement for the plaintiff plus court costs and punitive damages.
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We must all change our names to high-entropy strings longer than any sane NAME field to assert refusal of restraints. I’m just adopting the moral code of the Emojisteins, of course. [Sticks all the kitchen things in NewGrounds for a year, changes car horn to shofar of unusual size, starts business in place that hasn’t had any.]
Kind of hoping the one with a warrant for arrest got that dismissed --and-- off the list while also kind of liking her to be at large and picking new disguises all the time. Long moustaches, trans man shading and prosthetic adam’s apple and wrecked ears, a fade and curls creeping down her hairline, Shu Uemura eyebrows. Q’s accessories. Hannibal’s sweater. List consistency a big ask at the TSA side in 2022?
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Name Crime. Double Plus Ungood.
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What a fucked up story. Poor woman never truly saw justice.
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“But you see, Tuttle is still clearly Tuttle.”
“Arrest them anyway.”
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We’ve had our own run in with these assholes a year or two after 9/11. My husband used my suitcase for a long business trip and when he went to collect it at baggage claim at terminal 6, it wasn’t there. He reported it missing to the airline and drove home.
A few hours later, I got a VM from a cop at LAX telling me that they had my suitcase. He left a phone number, but when I tried it I got a number disconnected message. So I called the number that appeared on my call log and the fucking cop lit into me for calling his personal cell phone. He then proceeded to reprimand me for abandoning my suitcase at the Bradley terminal. I told him that my husband used my suitcase and reported it missing earlier in the day when he returned home. He found this very suspicious. Why would someone other than myself (i.e., my husband) use my luggage? He threatened to put me on the DoNotFly list.
The LAX airport police is under the city of Los Angeles, but we’ve been told by a beat reporter that this police force is informally known as the island of misfit toys. Apparently the LAPD puts all the cops who have poor performance reviews and the low scoring rookie cops from the academy at this substation.
I’m hoping she gets a nice fat settlement from the city.
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Summary: Malloy, Reed, and Officer Woods are assigned airport duty at LAX, now equipped with closed-circuit cameras.
There’s an argument over a suitcase; another dispute involving an Army soldier and another. A ticket clerk that catches Malloy’s eye informs him of a man who bought tickets from her previously under a different name, a runaway is escorted to security until his mother can pick him up, and there’s a silent alarm at a toll gate, with a possible hostage. Molloy might go on a luch date with the pretty ticket clerk.
Tina Cole (from My Three Sons ) guest stars.
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I’ll have to watch that one. 
Those shows were serious copaganda!
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What’s so interesting about the series is how much emphasis is put on “restraint” (not the handcuffs type) in the show, like whether or not to use the tear gas, for example. 
Definitely not what LAPD has evolved into IRL.
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You’re correct that these shows had an idealized version of the LAPD. They are fun to watch (mostly to see that contrast between yesterday and today).
William Parker cleaned up the corruption of the LAPD only to usher in military-style personnel to make them appear more professional. However, he did next to nothing about the rampant racism among his cops. It’s no coincidence that Los Angeles had two major social upheavals under his tenure and his protégé’s. (Daryl Gates learned everything from Parker and took it up several notches by buying military grade weaponry and vehicles.)
When I taught AP Lang in the aughts, I showed a documentary about the Munich Olympics. (We were studying the use of pathos in nonfiction and I thought it would be interesting to dissect the documentary’s use of music, tone, interviews, etc., with something that appeared to be straightforward.) I remember that one of my students asked why the West Germans didn’t use a SWAT-type force? We ended up having an historical discussion about post-WWII West Germany disarmament and the increasing militarization of U.S. police force. Police forces weren’t always so militaristic.
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You forgot “jail time for you, for royally screwing up somebody’s life.”
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