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> for every one of the 120+ of us in holding, there was also a cop who was waiting there too, being paid overtime and trying to get our paperwork processed so that they could go home

Cops being paid overtime is a tremendous conflict of interest motivating them to arrest and to process slowly.

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I doubt very seriously that any cop does not find the manual paper entry and time wasted a good thing. More than likely they wanted to go home just as bad as the "perps."

But it is a potential conflict of interest, hence it is something worth addressing, no? Especially it's in the best interests of both the cops and the people.

It's better than encouraging them not to fill out paperwork.

Then again, you could be seen as punishing the cops for making a (possibly good) arrest by forcing them to spend long hours processing paperwork and not getting paid. Though, I do agree that the current situation is stacked in a bad way.

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