Why would an officer suspend an arrest warrant without consent from the victim of the crime?

Question

Why would an officer suspend an arrest warrant without consent from the victim of the crime?

Answer 1

Neither the officer or the victim can "suspend" and arrest warrant.  Warrants are issued by judges.  Only a judge can vacate or recall a warrant.  An officer might choose not to arrest someone on a warrant, but they can't "suspend" or cancel it.

Answer 2

Because the warrant is based on a criminal case and that is in turn based on the raising of charges by a prosecutor ratified by a criminal court judge.  A private citizen has no real power to press or drop charges.  All that stuff you hear about victims who decide to drop charges - that's pure television.  It might have been real at one time, but then prosecutors and courts began to get wise to domestic absuie cases where charges were either never pressed or were frequently dropped, and the system realized that it was time to educate those on the outside how things really worked.  Cases are prosecuted when there is eveidence of a crime; they are dropped when the evidence proves insufficient (no probable cause to arrest or, by the DA, when it appears that a jury would never be able to find the charges true beyond a reasonable dount).

The power to issue or stay (I guess what you mean by judge) is limited to judges.  There are Judicial Hearing Officers, and they don't have any authority to do that.  Officers just carry out the warrants (it's basically a court order).  There is, strictly speaking, no requirement for a warrant for arrest.  Unlike a warrant to search which requires both some showing that evidence of a specified crime will be discovered by a search AND the warrant itself, an arrest need only be shown ot have been based on probable cause.

Answer 3

Only a judge can do that.  Usually they will only do that upon request of the DA's office.