Your kids will have arrest records, no matter what happens in court next week. That will come in handy when they have kids of their own and the gummint decide they don’t like the way they’re being raised.
It’s not going to stop until they start getting their fool heads blown off after breaking through the wrong doors. As long as they are confident they’ll go home safe at the end of their shift after spending many happy hours breaking down the doors and jaws of innocent citizens, they’ll just get more and more abusive.
Yes. We learned that ugly truth - along with the ugly reality that we are guilty until we prove our innocence in court.
Even when charges are thrown out of court (as was my SIL's bogus charge) we learned that the charge will remain on her record, and she can expunge it after a year and five months after paying a fee and going to court to remove it.