bum-rap verb to arrest someone without proof of guilt US,1947
I can’t ever scream about being bum-rapped. — Bruce Jackson, Inthe Life, p. 160, 1972
I was in a schoolyard, fer chrissake, maybe five, ten minutes, when these two cops from the 86th precinct bum-rap me! — Terry Southern, NowDigThis, p. 146, 2001