Meaning of underarrest | Babel Free

Definitions

To arrest at a disproportionately low rate.

transitive

Examples

“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?”

CEFR level