11-09-2015, 01:53 AM
(11-09-2015, 01:36 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I will now address your second point. When you establish contact with a person in an official capacity, i.e. you may be citing them for an infraction or more, it is standard operational procedure to establish the identity of the contactee. Since this woman clearly falls under this definition I am, yet again, slightly mystified as to why you find their request for ID puzzling. Or is it common practice in Tennessee to hand out citations to people without first confirming their actual identity?
Don't know why you are puzzled. I have already pointed out that i considered this to be a "public safety" stop instead of one that would justify any sort of citation.
In Tennessee we don't give out citations for people walking down the road who are not obstructing traffic. If they do that in her state then I agree that the police had the right to ask for her ID. But I just don't see it ever happen here. And since the officer didn't mention anything about any legal violation and only talked about her safety I really don't think he felt he had any grounds to give her a citation.
Now will you agree that when you come in contact with a person, but have no cause to believe that he was involved in any criminal activity you don't have the right to make him give you his identification? You said you were going to address this, but you actually didn't.
