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And there are good reasons for that, it's to protect innocent people from false accusations. It looks like he'd be well within his rights to sue over this allegation.

[AstralStorm]

Also bad reasons such as saving face or reducing workload for police officers.

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Do you really think that's the case all but a small minority of the time?

Most officers go into the job for altruistic reasons and I bet they'd rather help convict a rapist than to write a speeding ticket.