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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by cbsmith on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:34PM (#33635012)
You're reading a lot into autoexec's comments that aren't actually there (maybe it's from this ProPublica story that I can't find a reference to?).

There was no comment about how it was reasonable to make the phone call, and there's specific criticism of the police conduct... All they said was that at the point CPS got involved, it's entirely possible that CPS did their job exactly as they should have.

I would point out that all we know that CPS did was a) require that the parents not be left alone in the house with the kids while they were conducting their investigation (and even for that, it's not clear from the story that that requirement came from CPS, but it seems likely that's the case) and b) perform an investigation that concluded there was no observable risk to the kids. They weren't involve in the decision to perform the arrest, not involved in setting bail, not involved in any strip search, etc.

Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by Thlom on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:53AM (#33640681)
>There was no comment about how it was reasonable to make the phone call, and there's specific criticism of the police conduct... All they said was that at the point CPS got involved, it's entirely possible that CPS did their job exactly as they should have.

I would suspect the first step of any investigation would be to find out why they are investigating and not just set everything in motion based on a vague report from police?

Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ... by cbsmith on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:14AM (#33641022)
I don't think this line of reasoning goes where you think it goes...

One could imagine that is how the investigation proceeded.