Has an undercover cop ever really benefited the people?

I'd love to be corrected on this, but when it comes to cops, I'ma doubt that real fucking fast.

Doesn't matter if it passes. The president doesn't abide by the law, so they don't need to either.

It's totally reasonable, but it'll probably also get you deported to El Salvador. Or at the very least beat.

Problem is they aren't required to prove it to you - some witness - unless it's your child that's involved, and they can take their sweet time providing proof to the person being detained as well, waiting until they've already thrown you to the ground and cuffed you.

This includes the "ghost letter" bullshit. They claim it's so they can blend in and catch violations as they happen. Bro everyone can see a cop driving from a mile away by the way they drive, the reinforced grill, the slightly beefier trim to hide the installed lights, etc.

Conversely, I should not be required to show my face to anyone if I'm not trying to assert authority over them. Being a public servant means having a public identity, being a private citizen means you have the freedom to make choices about what you share.

You should not be under any obligation to assume or respect any proposed authority by a person unwilling to show you their face.

Explaining this to the guy with a badge and a mask shoving a gun in my face.

He's screaming and cocking the weapon, while a few of his friends approach me with tasers and clubs, but I'm just going to stand here waving a copy of John Locke's Social Contract while explaining that I am a Free Man On The Land and do not make joinder.

Isn’t this already happening?

Also many people may not necessarily know how a real ICE badge looks like. And fake badges are available for collectors and cosplayers alike. Also most people will not fully check or examine a badge or insignia, meaning by the time they realize it is fake it will be too late.

I can think of a few forms of encouragement.

Id would be trivial to fake. So either way it wouldn't solve much without a hefty penalty for using a fake one.

It's a state legislature attempting to regulate a federal agency. Even if it manages to make it to the Governor's desk, you know Newsom will veto it, because he's a cowardly little toad man who has never found a boat he was above licking. And if, by some miracle it survives the legislature and Newsom discovers his spine, the federal courts will bat this away overnight.

All that is assuming Silicon Valley doesn't have enough votes in the state house to smoother this proposal in committee.

Why even worry about the language of a DOA bill? You're not stopping ICE from Sacramento. Not with the current crop of liberal dorks and techbro shills running things.

A face can be seen, recognized and recorded from a distance. Video doesn't usually do any good with badges and other identification but cops and criminals both - or one and the same - risk being identified if they don't have masks.

Stop hogging the time machine, give someone else a chance to document inevitable future

Then, when a Democratic president takes office the court will walk it back and say “well, actually, there’s this exception, and this exception, and that exception…”

Or they won't, because the Dem president will simply "not abuse such powers" due to their "adherence to decorum".

The SC made the president god-king while Biden was in office.

Where I live cops wear strips on their vest with their station, and name badges with their officer number and name.

Only really practical exception I can think of is when responding to fires or hazardous chemical releases (not caused by them just chucking teargas all over the place) or when working in hospitals or other indoor locations where there is an extremely high likelihood of encountering someone who is immunocompromised since they probably aren't up to date on their shots.

In these situations, other forms of identification should be incredibly prominently visible.

Edit for the latter since I know I'm gonna get "whatabouts": officer should be performing roles that necessitate their presence and are providing safety against clear and present threats, e.g., protection details, wellness checks, or collecting evidence. Not deporting children with leukemia or some such vile fuckery.

Stop anyone with a mask attempting to do ICE stuff.

Rifles in hand, ideally

How can they prosecute someone who fights back when the person they fought was wearing a mask? It would be self defence.

They would not. You would.

It's insane that it wasn't required from the start.

Because people dont read history text books... They know star wars, they dont know details about what happened in Germany in the late 1930s, if they did, we would not be in this situation...

The exceptions are actually logical not broad. The only questionable exception that seems open to abuse is "health reasons".

But the ones we need to be worried about can't read anyway.