Can a child under age 7 be arrested in NY?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

In practice the answer is effectively yes. Technically they may call it something else ("detained", perhaps), but there's no fundamental reason that a police officer anywhere cannot take a child into custody if the police officer believes that that child has committed a crime.

Wiki User

∙ 13y ago

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