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In reply to the discussion: DISGUSTING: How one Florida County Sheriff's office is preparing for Irma [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)While running every person who walks in would be excessive (but seemingly legal), I doubt they would do that anyway because it would take forever and slow things down.
However, if an officer sees a person there they know to have active warrants they have that legal mandate to take them into custody.
While the routine FTA's for small stuff are things that they likely won't know the people by sight, your more violent or high level offenders are more than likely known to them by sight, and they have a good idea who is likely to have a warrant.
If they are in a shelter and someone comes in who they know has an active warrant because his picture has been out on the daily BOLO list they still have the same obligation as they would if they saw that person out on he street.
I have to point out that the idea of having warrants because you ignored the law and you ignored the system and said "fuck you" to the authority of lawful government and then you run to take refuge in a government run shelter your every bit as hypocritical as a person who refuses to pay taxes and runs to a government run shelter. Part of the social contract is as citizens obeying the law and complying with our system of governance- and if you have a warrant and you are knowingly elduding and not getting that taken care of you are saying you don't give a damm about government and its rules. To then demand refuge from that same body and society at large you thumbed your nose at is deeply hypocritical.