Did you even read your link? It says that police can reasonably ask your name - not demand ID, such as in the example of the post.
Another statement where you’re getting it backwards relative to the posted information.
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Both the actor and the cop think they’re above everyone else.
With the actor, this doesn’t matter.
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Actually, it’s perfectly legal to tell an officer to fuck off, as long as you aren’t being threatening.
Of course, the outcome depends on number of witnesses, skin color of all participants, socieconomic status, and your skull’s tolerance to extreme physics poisoning =x…
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Ah, Can Vs Should in action.
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You might as well say that the script doesn’t matter and the characters don’t matter, and the play doesn’t matter and that wasting your time at the theatre distracts from the important tasks to be done.
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I’m starting to think that the only solution is to completely wipe all police departments and build the system from the ground up again.
Either that or just put down any cop found to be betraying the trust of the general public like the rabid dog that he or she is…
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I agree. Policing in the US is rotten to the core. The whole system needs to be completely thrown out and rebuilt, possibly with federal oversight. Keeping it so local makes policing almost wild west. Accountability crumbles when it’s just a bunch of buddies.
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Right from the start.
Street cops:
Detectives:
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The one in cuffs was asking for it.
right now im more than a little glad there isn’t a federal police force. dhs is bad enough. but more oversight might be good.
i think devolving the police relying on dot and the fire department for traffic incidents and traffic tickets, some group for nuisance complaints, social service for domestic calls, bring in trained investigators who are more professional than cop, things like that. ending the war on drugs wouldn’t hurt too
get police off the streets as much as possible, and only bring them in for armed response
i’d think even cops and their unions would be happy to do less
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Sure, a federal police force would have its own problems and may even be worse.
But it’s astounding how little oversight the cops have, and that’s a desperately bad problem. When the only people who can hold you accountable are also the same people who are your buddies, and everyone has everything to lose and nothing to gain from accountability, then there’s a ripe environment for abuse.
We need police accountability. Police unions aren’t right. Policing isn’t labor. They don’t need a union.
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I really wasn’t prepared for someone reading “anti-art” into my comment.
Do you really believe this was my intention or are you just trying to derail?
I don’t know the law around this, but I have to imagine that if a person identifying themselves as a police officer refuses to provide evidence of their own identity (presumably that doesn’t have to be a name, the badge number is more likely - otherwise perps can ‘find you’), then there’s a total breakdown of executive authority and a person has every right to assume that the person dealing with them is not a police officer at all.
“Fuck you is my name” -> too many mob movies.
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We found the bad apple! It’s officer Fuck You. There’s the bad apple everyone has been talking about.
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Very true, but he’s also being recorded. I hear a big fat apology coming from the captain of the police department next to the dummy popo who is acting so rude for no reason.
My job is pretty damned hard at times, if you count dealing with dying children and freaked out, terrified, angry parents. “Fuck you” is never a response that would pass through my mind. This asshole needs a serious attitude adjustment, followed by a job adjustment.
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In college whenever campus security asked us for our ID we would say we didn’t have it, so when they asked for a name at least one of us would say “Michael Hunt.”
I’m sure security had a long list of infractions attributed to Mike Hunt.
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Gun totin’, sexually frustrated police officers everywhere.
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