• sweetviolentblush [they/them]@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    They really went out of their way to make this look more like a passport photo… why is he in a full suit and tie and not in a jumpsuit? Where is his placard with his name and info? Are they really allowing someone arrested to have a sharp object on hand (his pin)? I really hate the double standards.

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      11 months ago

      If you’re getting bailed out right away, there’s no point in booking you into general population and providing you with clothes. There’s no double standard here; they are just getting processed and released.

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      11 months ago

      The majority of the mug shots (that you’ll never see, because most places don’t even care enough to release them) don’t have the arrested in a jumpsuit or with placard. Modern day suspect lineups use those mugshots to generate ‘look-alikes’ so that the lineup isn’t one black guy and four white guys and thus completely ridiculous in terms of a victim identifying the actor in a crime. The mugshots need to be of them in civilian attire for the same reason that you wouldn’t put one guy in the lineup in handcuffs.