Here's the problem...and I'm speculating this was the case here. There are two things officers, and/or their agencies do. Officers often are trained to believe that courts "sort things out". That could have been the case here.
The other is departmental policies that say probable cause = automatic arrest. I'm betting this is the more likely scenario.
In either event, it's passing the buck, and it's passing it to an entity that is NOT charged with investigating, and "sorting things out"...the DA is charged with prosecuting crimes, and the courts with maintaining procedural safeguards. Cases brought to him should have been "sorted out" by the investigating officer(s). That's what an investigation does, sorts out facts, and circumstances.
THIS!
Makes sense...
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
