The Chattanooga police department’s refusal to obey the scope of Title 55, the motor and other vehicles statute, invites closer scrutiny of its obedience to other laws. My review of arrest procedures indicates that the department, with the complicity of the magistrates and the lower courts, disobeys a law that gives grounds for arrest by the officer without a warrant but also limits arrest powers. That law gives an inch to the state from the body of constitutional rights, and the lawyer-police industrial complex for decades now takes a mile. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 FM That is Tennessee … Continue reading Analysis suggests grave overstep on police authority