| Mr Khan said: Given the way police tend to act already, a law like this is just asking for trouble. In an environment with 100% police competence and professionalism, this law could work, but unfortunately this is not the case. The governor's executive order to make sure police are properly trained will help, but when the primary motive of the law is "figure out of those guys are illegals or not" it's just not going to end well. |
Except it's still not a primary duty of the police to sort out who's illegal and who's not. If they were being sent out to dredge the streets for people who "looked illegal," I'd agree that this is a bad law.
All laws are susceptible to being abused, but either we are a nation of laws or we are not, and this strikes me as a peculiar place to begin crying "halp! police state!!1"
