City receives notice seeking to halt illegal warrantless arrests

On April 15 I put city government under administrative notice about the limits in a statute that gives Chattanooga cops an inch in arresting people without a warrant — but which they ignore and take a country mile. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 FM The law is a set of exceptions to the general ban on warrantless arrests in the state constitution. But police have for years ignored the law by an interpretation of its key provision that turns the whole into a nullity.  Turning a law into void gibberish is forbidden by the courts under the rules of … Continue reading City receives notice seeking to halt illegal warrantless arrests