Why can I make a citizen's arrest?

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After seeing someone make an illegal left turn, Mike joked to his daughter that they should do a citizen’s arrest. She had no idea what he was talking about, and now Mike wants to know: wait, are citizen’s arrests actually a real-life thing, or just something he saw on TV? And if they are real, how do they work? And what do they say about crime and policing in our country? This week on Explain It to Me, host Jonquilyn Hill talks to Stanford Law School professor David Sklansky to find out. He’s the author of the new book Criminal Justice in Divided America. We want to know what’s on your mind! Call us at 1-800-618-8545 and leave us a voicemail with your name and your question — we may answer it in a future episode. Credits: Jonquilyn Hill, host Patrick Boyd, engineer Kim Eggleston, fact checker Carla Javier, supervising producer Jorge Just, editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.3	Who am I to give myself the authority to detain or arrest somebody else?
0:52.7	Hey, y'all.
0:53.9	This is Explain explaining to me.
0:55.7	Your go-to hotline for the questions you can't quite answer on your own.
1:00.4	I'm John Plin Hill.
1:02.8	And this week, I'm trying to find some answers for Mike in Chicago.
1:08.3	My question actually came from a conversation I had in traffic with my teenage daughter.
1:12.7	We saw something happen, moderately, modestly criminal. And I said to her, you should make
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