Not all college students live in the dorms and many work full or part time.
This will affect future post graduation employment as well.
The lesson seems to be: “get in the system, even falsely, and it’ll haunt you for life.
Why is it that in the US potential employers can find out whether or not you have been arrested? In the UK, you only have to disclose your dealings with the law if you’ve either accepted a police caution (i.e. owned up to an offence) or been convicted by a magistrate or a jury. Merely being arrested isn’t good enough. How is it even constitutional to be punished for a crime for which you haven’t even been charged, never mind convicted?