Just the facts, maam.

There is only one sophist...read captious and fallacious reasoner, at once seemingly learned, but intending to deceive... posting junk to this thread.

To report the facts they ascertain, a police person will indeed make judgements of whom to believe, what to believe, and what needs to be done about it. Most police will automatically arrest and jail someone brandishing a gun, even in their own home. Granted, poster was trying to protect himself from people who had previously done him harm, but the simpler method is to CALL THE POLICE.

So how else does anyone posting to this thread choose to adequately describe what the police DO out there in bringing in a perp?

Can you describe it any better? Come on now... give it up. Our daily lesson in legal speak! Actually, it is more like our daily lesson in obfuscation.


captious

SYLLABICATION: cap·tious
PRONUNCIATION: kpshs
ADJECTIVE: 1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar. 2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English capcious, from Old French captieux, from Latin captisus, from capti, seizure, sophism, from captus, past participle of capere, to seize. See kap- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: captious·ly —ADVERB
captious·ness —NOUN

To seize the thread from another through innocuous and specious complaint.