No new arrests by local police since 2003, I think the last 14 years count for something.  To me anyway, even if not to others.  In cold weather I did ask for a phone and was refused, period.
This, as they admit, is not a new policy, the lie is they offer a phone.  Maybe they do for the folks they like, dunno, I never even name called any officer for doing his job, I was always mad at others and directed it at not at bystanders.  An admirer of Ghandi, I do not take orders well, but it should not be for the workers in booking to decide the punishment.