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>>Kapura+(OP)
So, how are you to distiguish between one of these "Police Forces" and some rogue vigilante militias? Is there some secret hand-signals they use to cross-identify?

>>PeterS+nh
Federal law enforcement are obligated to present printed ID cards identifying the officer and their agency. Anyone unwilling or unable to do so is an armed civilian in violation of DCs open carry laws, and the DC Metro Police should be notified.

>>mike_d+Xo
The law obligates them to present ID, but they have refused and faced no consequences from either DC Metro Police or their own superiors.

Laws are worth zero if the law enforcers ignore them with impunity - a lesson familiar from Caribbean and African banana republics.

>>Magnum+Lq
President Andrew Jackson famously shrugged off the US Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia by (probably not) saying "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!". Like you said, "Laws are worth zero if the law enforcers ignore them with impunity". This is why we need a system to police the police. At some point, we as a society need to commit to forcing those who swear to uphold the laws to also live by them.