| If you have ever watched Arts & | | | | department store detective finds on his video |
| Entertainment's Dog: The Bounty Hunter on cable TV | | | | camera that a shoplifter is smuggling items into a |
| and wondered how is it that the Dog, Duane | | | | shopping bag with the intent to leave the store |
| Chapman, is allowed to make an arrest? Exactly what | | | | without paying for the items. When the detective |
| is he doing to force an arrest? Under what authority | | | | accosts the perpetrator, brings them to the security |
| is he making an arrest? | | | | office in the back of the store, and subsequently calls |
| How is he allowed to wear a badge if he himself is a | | | | police to take them away, the store detective has |
| convicted felon? | | | | made a citizen's arrest. |
| When the Dogman and his team pursues a suspect | | | | The store detective, a private citizen, witnessed a |
| out on the streets of the beautiful islands of Hawaii | | | | crime on the store's surveillance camera and called |
| to arrest a bail jumper, he is executing an age-old U.S. | | | | police to have the culprit taken to jail. This is a |
| law that allows citizens, acting as bounty hunters, to | | | | citizen's arrest. |
| make "citizen's arrests" on their suspects. As a | | | | In Duane Chapman's case, he is using a variation of a |
| bounty hunter, he is a private citizen who acquired a | | | | citizen's arrest rule. Consider this scenario. A bail |
| license to work as a bail enforcement agent. For that | | | | jumper is out on bail for a crime he committed and |
| reason, he is allowed to wear a badge. Furthermore, | | | | runs the risk of failing to show up for a scheduled |
| as a private citizen and not as an employee of a law | | | | court date. Then a bail enforcement agent, Chapman, |
| enforcement agency, he is allowed to make a | | | | comes to arrest the jumper and takes them to the |
| citizen's arrest to enforce bail. | | | | local Hawaii jail where authorities await their arrival. |
| A citizen's arrest does not necessarily require that | | | | Duane Chapman has made a citizen's arrest but an |
| you wear a badge and carry a 9 oz. bottle of pepper | | | | arrest under the authority of the bounty hunter laws |
| spray like Duane Chapman does on his TV program. | | | | of the U.S. Constitution. The fact that he is a licensed |
| To make a citizen's arrest, you must witness a crime | | | | bail enforcement agent allows him to handcuff a |
| in progress or have witnessed a crime and call police | | | | suspect to detain them. |
| to take down a report. By having police take a | | | | If you witness a crime, do not attempt to detain the |
| report so that THEY can apprehend the perpetrator | | | | culprit for litigious and safety reasons. You could run |
| later, you are, in effect, making a citizen's arrest. You | | | | the risk of getting arrested yourself if you violate |
| are not detaining the perp yourself by stunning him | | | | any kidnapping laws. Gather as much information as |
| with your very own Taser gun you bought on the | | | | you can about the crime and the perp to make a |
| Internet and hogtying him for police to arrive | | | | police report so that you can do your civic duty of |
| although this CAN happen. | | | | making a citizen's arrest. |
| An example of a citizen's arrest is when a | | | | |