does a person have to show identification when asked by the police?

Answer 1

No.

The previous answers all relate to being stopped while driving, during which you must show your license or face being detained for driving without it. Even in that circumstance, you have the right to know why you've been stopped, and to continue on your way unmolested if the officer hasn't got a credible reason for stopping your vehicle.

No one else in the vehicle, and no one on the street or in any other situation or place in the US must carry identification, nor must you show any ID if/when stopped by the police.

It is fascist to require people to carry 'identity cards' and yet so many of our own citizens are totally clueless on this point.

Answer 2

NO... U don't... U just go to jail. Can some of U even spell policeman??? Hello...A police officer is a warranted employee of a police service. Among the responsibilities of a police officer are to maintain public order, prevent and detect crime and apprehend offenders, using force when necessary... Think about it. P.S. (In some circumstances you might not have ID but I bet U do)! The police aren't stupid.
LOL P.S.S, good answer Brian!

Answer 3

Definitely yes. Because you are confronted by a license police officer who is just doing his job. Refusal to give your identification would tantamount of being a suspect of some imaginable crime, which not yet perpetrated in the mind of the police officer. So not to mess your day or make any misunderstanding just present your identification card or something to the police officer, just make sure he is a legitimate police officer, otherwise you are just making yourself a fool by someone else.

Answer 4

Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, 542 U.S. 177 (2004), held that statutes requiring suspects to identify themselves during police investigations did not violate either the Fourth or Fifth Amendments. Under the rubric of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), the minimal intrusion on a suspect's privacy and the legitimate need of law enforcement officers to quickly dispel suspicion that an individual is engaged in criminal activity justified asking a suspect to identify himself.

Answer 5

there is no common answer on your question. this is going to continually rely on the particular undertaking. All a police officer desires with the intention to require identity is "functional suspicion", this is a decrease time-honored than "in all likelihood reason" and in all fairness straightforward to fulfill. once you are the passenger in a motor vehicle, each and all the officer fairly has to teach is which you known nervous and/or evasive--it is "functional suspicion" which you have some thing to cover, and maximum courts could carry that him inquiring to your identity is quite functional (fairly considering that understanding who he's coping with is an officer protection situation). i do no longer think there is any jurisdiction interior the U. S. that calls so you might have identity on you in any respect circumstances (whilst driving, definite, yet no longer whilst walking down the line). in spite of the undeniable fact that, if the officer has reason to request your identity, and you have not got it on you, be arranged to be detained until your identity is shown. And in case you think of this is a competent concept to easily declare you have not got identity on you whilst, in actuality, you do, then be arranged to be charged with giving fake education to an officer.

Answer 6

Nora-Get your facts straight. Brian- right on!! In maine you must show identification when asked to do so.

Answer 7

If you are driving, yes. If you are just walking around, you don't have to have an id, but you must provide satisfactory information to the officer to verify your identity. This includes telling the officer your social security number, drivers license number, or name and date of birth.

Answer 8

Contrary to what Nora said, in Florida you are required to identify yourself when asked by police.This does not mean you must have an ID, but you must given them truthful information about who you are. Refusing or giving false information is a crime.

Answer 9

It depends where you live.
Here in Ontario you must identify yourself if you are driving or a passenger in a car. You must id yourself if you are committing or have committed an offence (federal criminal code or provincial liquor licence/trespassing).

If you are walking along a sidewalk and have not committed any offence you don't have to identify yourself in any fashion.

Answer 10

just standing in front of a 7-11 minding
your own business: no. driving wrecklessly
down a one-way street?: your call.