I wish we could take our Juvies to the jail......here is our process....maybe it will make u feel better:
-After arrest, we take them to our east precinct (Which is fine, unless u work WAY west of it or arrest 30 miles west of it)
-Once at our precinct, we take finger prints with a fancy smancy finger print machine, which unless u work in the jail and do finger prints ALL the time, sucks balls!! Every print u take will get rejected by the machine, until you have taken 10 prints, then it will let you force enter one of them (And yes that is 10 prints for EACH print....meaning I can take 100 prints just for the 10 fingers, plus 20 full palms, 20 additional thumbs and 20 4 finger combos, so possibly 160 total prints)
-Then we photograph the juv, which is the easy part.
-Next we call the juvie dept to see if they wanna take em into custody (50% chance juvie says "release to parents"), if they do take em, we get to wait till Juvie shows up with their transport van (Usually 1 hour)
-If Juvie doesnt take them, we call parents to come get them.....which can take any amount of time, depending on how motivated they are.
-If you are done dealing with a juv in under 2 hours, you are the freaking man!! And that doesnt include writing your report!