In 1959, the Supreme Court ruled that it is better for citizens to not be subject to easy arrest. This is so even if:

The ruling reflects the principle that protecting citizens from unjustified arrests is more important than making every prosecution easy. As the saying goes, it is better for some guilty people to go free than for innocent people to lose their rights. So the correct choice is “the guilty sometimes go free.”

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