Would you trust that anyone that flashes a badge is who they say ? ( Archived) (15)

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Regardless of how we feel about it, perhaps driven by a need for simplicity, many courts have already opined that the badge is ID enough in the case of law enforcement personnel and an ID card is not legally required for someone to be appointed to a position. In truth I once held a government appointment for an obscure group and was told to make my own ID card with certain phraseology included, send it in and the appointing official would sign it, copy it and send it back so I could laminate it and carry it if someone wanted to see an ID, and that is what I did. It looked good enough so that on the very few occasions I had to pull it out 95% of the time just showing it was enough so folks would let me in their homes or behind the counter at their place of business. A few years later that group found some budget money and actually had ID cards and badges made for those doing such work.

We need to understand that ID cards are something that have emerged within the span of my lifetime and when the laws were first written, no one had IDs.

Yes, a uniform can be store bought or items found on the Internet, but common sense coupled with the circumstances of the confrontation and the needs of society is what the court will look at before handing down their judgment.

So go ahead, when you are caught urinating on the subway and a uniform cop chases you, tell the court you only tried to get away and resist arrest because you thought his uniform was fake. Good luck to you.