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Originally Posted by The Gaijin
The problem is - if you get caught up in something small like riding a bike on the sidewalk..
I have posed on this before. Guy moves to NYC, out on his bike with no ID, runs afoul of PD making a "quality of life" ticket quota, and spends the weekend in the tank..
Cops refused to call the Mrs. because their cell phone (only phone) was from an outside NYC area code and considered "long distance".
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Has such a thing really happened before? If you're getting stopped because of a crime or PC of having been involved in a crime, then yes, you'd better have ID on you. At the very least, just so the cop knows how to write your name on the cite. The purpose behind not having a stop and ID law is to keep cops from making unreasonable stops of pedestrians, who might feel compelled to talk to the police, when they really don't have to. The lesson here is - if you don't know your rights, you don't have any.