Court Opinion

ID: 9763354
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:42:47.797407+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:57:02.078216
License: Public Domain

NEBEKER, Associate Judge
(concurring) :
I concur in the opinion of the court and add the following observation.
We have come too far in law enforcement and police-community relations to permit officers to be so untrained in the basic law as to operate on the misapprehensions revealed herein, especially that the failure to carry identification can alone under these circumstances warrant an arrest. Moreover, we cannot fail to recognize that the continued vitality of the holding in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), rests on the assumption that law enforcement will sparingly use and apply the police power recognized in that decision and not attempt to disguise harassment in its mantle. See Williams v. United States, D.C.App., 287 A.2d 814 (1972).