Originally Posted by
stimpy
I think you watch Cops too much. And I didn't have a choice about letting the police in.
Sorry I was confused by this: (bolding mine)
Originally Posted by
stimpy
A sharp knock on the door and 3 serious looking CID police asking to speak to us. I invited them in and they asked us a bunch of questions.
Originally Posted by
stimpy
Not true at all. You weren't there and you don't know the law. And I never said the hotel "called in a police raid".
Sorry, I must have misunderstood this part: (bolding mine)
Originally Posted by
stimpy
I'm holding off on details for now. Just be sure that IMHO, the hotel management may have "believed" they had some concern, but they show terribly unprofessional behavior by not doing the tiniest investigation before they called in a police raid.
Now, no one likes being investigated. I can tell you as someone who's conducted and managed investigations in sworn and unsworn positions at various levels of government, as part of agencies and task forces, many times the cooperation of regular citizens is sought, and many times a set of particular circumstances serves to clear someone of concern. I have no objection to your description of the actions of hotel management, they reported activity they were asked to report.
The circumstances that led to that report seemed appropriate to the hotel, based on the instructions they received from law enforcement.
If you merely drove a red SUV down a street minutes after a reported bank robbery on that same street, and the getaway vehicle was reported to be a red SUV, you'd be as innocent as can be and would still be taken out at gunpoint, detained (in handcuffs normally), and questioned as to your recent activities. (Then you'd be let go with an explanation...)
This is a part of the system of legal justice (in both the USA, and in England, where the system of policing in the USA is based.)
Glad you were satisfied in the end, and you frankly shouldn't have had to wait for that explanation.
Edited to add: Also, travel employees (hotels, airlines, car rental agents, etc.) are increasingly being trained to report suspicious circumstances. There will likely be many sets of events that in the end don't warrant such suspicion. However, the "See Something, Say Something" program is all about this idea...