03-05-2019, 05:49 PM
(03-05-2019, 05:31 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: How is enforcement supposed to work if they can’t compel identification?
I'm considerably out of my legal league here, but it's important to remember that it is by-law enforcement that can't compel identification, not criminal law.
The process to create a by-law is considerably less complicated than making a criminal law, and the standards by which they are measured are different. If identification is so important, perhaps a by-law is a wrong tool. Empowering police to compel identification in the case of by-law enforcement concerns me because the oversight in creating by-laws is different and less strict than encoding something in criminal law and it puts a lot of power into the hands of by-law officers, which is a different role and has different background and training than a regular police officer.
It feels like the "regular" qualifier there is a pejorative against by-law officers, and I want to clarify that is because of my poor writing. By-law officers serve an important purpose, but it's different than a police officer and transferring powers between the roles is something that should be done with thoughtful consideration and intent, not because we don't like students behaving in certain ways.