Wrongfully jailed without recourse

In her Sunday Denver Post column, "Justice not on city's to-do list," Susan Greene lament's the City of Denver's incompetence.

She lists people wrongfully picked up and incarcerated on warrants by the Denver Police Department, including:

• A man 7 years younger and 90 pounds lighter than the one listed in the warrant;
  
• A man with the same name as the one listed in the warrant (it took EIGHT DAYS to release the wrongfully incarcereated man);
  
• A retired man locked up on a warrant for a "long-dead" man;
  
• A black man arrested on a warrant for a white man.
  

And there are people that think giving the police additional power is a good idea. The police can't handle the authority they currently have. I can only imagine what they'll be able to do once they start collecting innocent people's DNA. 

And it's not like we are talking about minor inconveniences being imposed on the public. We are talking about being wrongfully arrested and locked up. 

Somehow I don't think Patrick Henry would countenance that. We shouldn't either.