The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.
It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.
I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.