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Eish. They've started checking IDs on the Green Line. Apparently, if you are innocent, you are not supposed to mind.

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[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

I don't think it will. Wasting a cop's time on this is a plus for him, not a minus: I suspect a fairly large number of cops hate this idea too, and so spending it on a person being ornery is better than spending it on a dozen who aren't. Being obstructive is not going to send anyone a message they'll hear.

I think the only message that will get heard is civil disobedience, on a large scale. Either people are going to be willing to get hauled off to jail in large enough numbers on this one to affect policy or the policy will get implemented until the times change, and courts put a stop to this sort of nonsense.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

You're surely right. The only positive effect this can have is to require more officers to perform the same job. If this occurs enough, eventually it will get rather expensive; the officers will love the overtime pay, but the local government might suddenly discover a financial incentive to roll back enforcement.