ARREST event needs to be protected. U.S. Citizens are punished and considered guilty until proven innocent years later.

In the United States today, if you are arrested for any charge, your life is ruined, your face is plastered all over the media on television and the internet. You usually lose your job and are unable to obtain another job due to all companies use of a criminal background investigations will result in the arrest coming up in your records, not a conviction, merely an arrest. Innocent until proven guilty is simply not true anymore and the devastation to families is overwhelming, especially the poor, who cannot defend themselves due to lack of funds to do so. It is past time to stop persecuting and punishing those who have been arrested and must endure years or a lifetime of punishment and finally found innocent, but they don't get lost years back or any compensation for the pain an arrest.