Timeline for (When) are police required to identify themselves?
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| May 10, 2020 at 20:43 | history | protected | Nate Eldredge | ||
| Oct 26, 2017 at 23:38 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 22:38 | answer | added | Sam | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | jimsug | Notwithstanding the fact the citizen's arrests are still legal in many (most?) parts of the US, the fact that a police department has a policy means that it may be unlawful for them not to produce identification as adherence to the policies may be a requirement of their employment contract, and so failure to do so may be a breach of contract. Note that in this case, only the employer is entitled to seek remedy. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I suspect that there is a difference between a person who doesn't identify himself as a police officer, and a person who claims to be a police officer. So if a drug dealer asks a potential customer "are you a police officer" a police officer is allowed to lie. If a police officer tries to arrest the drug dealer then he probably has to show proof that he is a police officer and not a random person pretending to be one. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 8:19 | comment | added | phoog | A quick internet search suggests that most states do not have laws requiring police officers to identify themselves but that many police departments do have policies to that effect. | |
| S Dec 4, 2015 at 6:34 | history | suggested | Breakskater |
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| Dec 4, 2015 at 5:44 | history | edited | Alex Volpe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2015 at 4:39 | comment | added | Jason Aller | Are you asking in the scope of uniformed officers who are on duty? If so can you edit your question to include that? | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 4:16 | answer | added | Breakskater | timeline score: -7 | |
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| Dec 3, 2015 at 16:44 | history | asked | Alex Volpe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |