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English
Etymology
From under- + arrest.
Verb
underarrest (third-person singular simple present underarrests, present participle underarresting, simple past and past participle underarrested)
- (transitive) To arrest at a disproportionately low rate.
2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?
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