JD_2B
Little Vixen
if you are not driving and a cop stops you on the street because a robbery just took place nearby and you meet the suspect's description, and the cop asks you for ID, it is NOT against the law for you to say NO, I am not showing you my driver's license...a cop, under those conditions, can not force you to show him your driver's license...it is PRIVATE....you get to choose when to show it to anybody...EXCEPT when a cop stops you when DRIVING, then the DRIVER'S license has to be shown by law.
Actually, it is probable cause- to be stopped and asked to provide ID, or even a search, all they need is probable cause. They can arrest you for not cooperating with them- Resisting an officer without violence.
But this all boils down to a warranted and just search for a particular person, with probable cause- not a search of the entire country (like satellite images of rooftops, in search of the one that is orange, where some suspected killer lives) by some bizarre process of elimination.. in which the "suspects" eliminated are not suspects at all..