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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 727732" data-attributes="member: 4805">If you pull someone over with a broken tail light and they don't have a license, that's already an issue and they're already in trouble. Nobody needs a new law for that. Police are already empowered to check ID's and confirm someone's identification if they believe that person has violated some other law or in the course of an investigation. The problem with the Arizona's new law, as originally written was that it ostensibly did away with any prerequisite. Police could potentially just stop people and check their ID's not because they observed them doing anything wrong but just because they "looked suspicious" without defining "looked suspicious" actually meant. That's way too vague and the potential for abuse is pretty obvious.</blockquote>