[citation][nom]jomofro39[/nom]I am hoping he will not sue. I say now that I would not sue because it was a mistake, but you can never perfectly judge your own reactions to a situation until you are placed in it, no matter the aforethought. Unless, you just do what you said you were going to do to prove that you always do what you say you would do. Like the people who get harassed because they find a lot of money and turn it in. I say good on them. Karma is a bitch, respect it. Let's see if this kid has a sense of humor about it or reacts like sodium on water and gets Polk County Sheriffs fired and pension-less. Suing has become so abundant that it has lost its edge of meaning, of wrong-doing. Similarly how such rampant rates of divorce have weakened the bond of marriage to a (now more often than not, temporary) title. Just IMHO.[/citation]
Most of the time even when police officers are blatantly corrupt and doing wrong they're just put on a paid suspension, so I don't think anyone's going to lose their pension or anything. Maybe they should though, since a simple mistake like this could result in major problems for an innocent person. When it comes to legal matters like this, it's the filing officer's responsibility to double check and make sure that EVERYTHING is correct.
And when it comes down to it, it's all because of a culture that's growing increasingly lazy and dependent on computer systems to do their thinking for them. Instead of physically checking him and turning that info over to the media, they just pull some things up in their computer system and press print. Making the work easier is all well and good, until someone typos or people share a name. Then one media outlet gets that information without any fact checking and publishes it. Then several other so-called media outlets simply copy the original, again without any fact checking, and spread it around. The once respectable profession of a reporter has turned into glorified copy/pasters.