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Originally Posted by molson
Plenty of police officers didn't like when we pled cases down or dismissed them, but that was our call and not theirs and they knew better than to give us shit about it.
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I've made roughly 100 domestic assault arrests in 5+ years. I had a grand total of 1 of them go to trial (victim didn't show, but apparently made an "excited utterance" to me which got around hearsay). It still ended up getting dismissed since they couldn't prove the domestic relationship without the victim.
I used to get at least annoyed when my cases got plead down or dismissed until I learned that plead down means I get to go home and dismissed means I don't have to show up. I know that unless the person's guilt is blatant or I get a confession, the prosecutor isn't risking their "batting average" for it.