Reply #12: Just because we have hired the police...

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...to investigate crimes and arrest criminals, does not mean we have totally ceded supreme authority to them. The people still hold that authority and can remove it from the police at any time.

If the police arrest someone in good faith, truly believing that person committed a crime, they are not charged if it turns out no crime was committed. The police simply say "Whoops! Our bad!" and things go back to normal. Same thing here. The people acted in good faith, believed a crime had been committed, and held the girls and turned them over to the cops.

The bigger question should be, what in the holy fuck were a bunch of teenaged girls doing out in a car at night on a school night with the intentions of criminal mischief?