Hi everyone! I’m European. And lately, I have been wondering about “mugshots”. If I have understood correctly (but correct me if I’m wrong, that is why I am posting here: to learn!), whenever someone is arrested under the suspicion of some crime, mugshots are taken, and made publically available.
Is this true, or is this just an impression of mine? Can anyone just view the pics of people who have been arrested without being proven guilty?
Thanks in advance to anyone who cares to shed some light on this topic!
Much love to you all from Europe!
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So, in a place like Mississippi, where I’m from — which is sort of backwards — they use mugshots as a form of entertainment and even the municipal Facebook pages will blast people publicly for arrests related to shit as a petty as substance abuse,
while where I am now, in Colorado, it usually takes something wildly significant, like interstate interdiction stops yielding multiple pounds of hard drugs or raids on residences producing similar, for such to make it in the headlines.
I think whether or not a state or municipality or county readily publishes the mugshots of its citizenry reflects on how backwards — or not — an area might be classified.
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