Originally Posted by
Bearcat06
It's running Professor.....

Called a typo-- a little different . . .
Originally Posted by
Bearcat06
Funny....I (along with my co-workers and fellow LOEs around the US) do it all the time....and have had no issues from the Courts......
If the issue were squarely presented and you couldn't articulate RS, you would.
However, the issue is rarely squarely presented to a court-- here's why: If you search someone and it is a bad search, the fruits can be tossed out. If you compel a person to produce an ID without RS, that person has a warrant, and you arrest that person, it isn't a 'bad' arrest-- the arrest can't be 'tossed out'. Once you run someone through NCIC and a warrant comes back, barring a mistake on your part, you have PC to arrest that person. So, as far as the guilty are concerned, the issue really isn't going to come up.
As a practical matter, it would only come up in two instances: (1) you arrest someone for failure to ID, concealing identity, or some similar statute and you can't articulate RS, or (2) you detain an innocent person long enough for that person to decide to come around and sue you and you can't articulate RS. When you encounter one of these instances and do what you "do all the time", it will not come down on your side. The argument that 'I do it all the time and it hasn't been and issue' does not mean a practice is legal.