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Originally Posted by Daradon
This helps, but I'm still fuzzy, as well as a lot of the posters obviously. What makes a police officer decide whether or not to press charges without the 'consent' of the one who is 'wronged'? Is it a huge grey judgement call, or is there is narrower set of rules. Because often, in Canada, an officer will ask, 'do you want to press charges?' with smaller crimes or non-obvious guilt.
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It's probably more of a wink wink thing from police if they're asking citizens if they want to press charges.
Basically saying "I can take this to the crown and go through that whole process but if you don't care we'll probably just forget about it and save everyone the hassle".