false arrest

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noun Law.

arrest or detention of a person contrary to or unauthorized by law.

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Origin of false arrest

First recorded in 1925–30

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How to use false arrest in a sentence

Yet face surveillance is so invasive of privacy, so discriminatory against people of color, and so likely to trigger false arrests, that the government should not be using face surveillance at all.
US government agencies plan to increase their use of facial recognition technology|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 25, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The past year has been pivotal for face recognition, with revelations of the technology’s role in false arrests, and bans on it put in place by almost two dozen cities and seven states across the US.
We could see federal regulation on face recognition as early as next week|Tate Ryan-Mosley|May 21, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Two more instances of false arrests have since been made public.
The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue|Tate Ryan-Mosley|April 14, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The remaining $5 million was to resolve at least 65 other suits — alleging false arrest, excessive force, negligence and violations of constitutional rights — with amounts that often ranged from $25,000 to $200,000.
These are the police misconduct lawsuits the public hears little about|Paul Schwartzman|December 25, 2020|Washington Post

It did not answer any questions on the specific allegations of false arrest or sexual misconduct in the original story.
New York Lawmakers Demand NYPD Halt Undercover Sex Trade Stings|by Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan|December 16, 2020|ProPublica
And no issue should be defined by its outliers because it paints a false picture.
Bill de Blasio’s Tea Party Problem|Will Cain|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Later reports say that authorities claimed to be merely escorting him back to his house arrest.
Russia’s Rebel In Chief Escapes House Arrest|Anna Nemtsova|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.
Bill de Blasio’s Tea Party Problem|Will Cain|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Moscow protest was not sanctioned, which meant every participant risked arrest.
Russia’s Rebel In Chief Escapes House Arrest|Anna Nemtsova|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was told he could go back home to his house arrest to celebrate the New Year with his wife and their two children.
Russia’s Rebel In Chief Escapes House Arrest|Anna Nemtsova|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the sheer quantity of the inflated currency and false money forces prices higher still.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The rest is done by cutting away two upper and four under-teeth, and substituting false ones at the desired angle.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
He was thrashed at school before the Jews and the hubshi, for the heinous crime of bringing home false reports of progress.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
I will not, therefore, say that the proposition that the value of everything equals the cost of production is false.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
But his servant runs after the man, and gets two talents of silver and some garments under false pretences.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford