Talk:Taking This One to the Grave/@comment-71.230.209.204-20140827195502/@comment-68.59.55.66-20140828004543

No, in real life you don't need actual proof to arrest someone. It depends on how lazy or corrupt the police/detectives and DA are in your area. My friend's house was broken into and a lot of stuff was stolen. There were other burglaries in the area, including the burglar robbing his own parents. The burglar, after being questioned by detectives about his parents' burglary, had the audacity to suggest that my friend (the actual victim) must have robbed himself and everyone else, including the burglar's parents. The detectives accepted the burglar's words as truth and did not bother to fact check and had an arrest warrant for my friend, until luckily the burglar's accomplice confessed and revealed the burglar's entire charade. My friend was a hair's breath away from wrongfully being taken away in handcuffs and there was absolutely zero actual evidence connecting him to anything, just someone's lie.