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An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the Brink
(www.nytimes.com)
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No, I mean physically copy the cards.
Its not like they’re legally binding or impersonating a police officer.
You probally could. Thats another issue with them. They are an unregulated and unmonitored "break the law" pass given out to strangers.
Based on the article, you need to write a cops name on the back as that's the common "security feature" they add to prevent counterfeits, but thats it.
Of course, if the cop figures out it's a fake, they will apply every ounce of possible bullshit they can to ruin your life.
Ideally, everybody would have one. Then the cops won't have any idea whose are real and whose aren't, and if they just start indiscriminately ruining everyone's life things will be much the same as they are now but at least those "special" people won't be immune any more.
Even that doesnt "hack" the system, because it's nebulous and has paper thin rules. The only requirement is that it loosely IDs an "ingroup" not bound by the law like the "outgroup."
They can change the cards at any time to defeat the hack. They can change it to a hand signal and a card. As long as its informal and not written down or explicitly acknowledged, it can be anything.
They can also just opt not to apply it even if you have the "right" card if you are perceived to be in the "outgroup," i.e black/brown, or in an old beater, or or or....
Okay, ideally this just wouldn't be a thing at all. I'm proceeding on the assumption that it's going to be a thing.
Giving everyone one of these cards is still a big leg up, though. It throws chaos into the nice little club these police have set up. It means that everybody knows about it, and it means that the cops never know for sure who's actually "in" and who's "out." Even if they issue new ones constantly, making things cat and mouse, it means the "in" group needs to constantly be updating their cards. Anyone on the "in" group could still find themselves in a situation where they've slipped up and are presenting an old card, at which point they need to argue with the cop to convince him. If they fail, they get ticketed. And then the infighting ensues, just like in the case this article's about.
Turn this secret club into an open battle.