I fully understand the distrust in the NYPD but these guys could get arrested for taking matters into their own hands. It’s highly illegal!
“Apart from the “citizen arrest” statutes of New York, which authorize any “person” to use force necessary to arrest and hold a guilty offender in custody until the police take him, there exists a separate common law/statutory privilege that permits property owners, including shop-keepers and landowners, to restrain or “detain” persons whom they have probable cause to believe have committed or are about to commit violations of their property rights (e.g., by theft or by trespass or property damage)”
There is actually nothing illegal. It’s called a citizen arrest
א כאפצים איז מותר לכתחילה (עי בשב”ר פרק ג’ סעיף ח’) .
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I fully understand the distrust in the NYPD but these guys could get arrested for taking matters into their own hands. It’s highly illegal!
“Apart from the “citizen arrest” statutes of New York, which authorize any “person” to use force necessary to arrest and hold a guilty offender in custody until the police take him, there exists a separate common law/statutory privilege that permits property owners, including shop-keepers and landowners, to restrain or “detain” persons whom they have probable cause to believe have committed or are about to commit violations of their property rights (e.g., by theft or by trespass or property damage)”
There is actually nothing illegal. It’s called a citizen arrest
א כאפצים איז מותר לכתחילה (עי בשב”ר פרק ג’ סעיף ח’) .
אין אנדערע נייעס, וואס זאגט ֶעל שארפטען צו דעם?
אה ! דו מיינט אין ספר שו”ת שן ביעוט רגלים