Because your other toxic comments are getting flagged, I felt this one deserved a response.
> Show me the law that says my nosy neighbor should be allowed to walk over to my house and demand to know the names of the cops are who are talking to me, and force them to reveal what crime I am being accused of, what evidence they have, etc.
The US has constantly upheld the rights of the citizens to record the actions of police.
But it's also explicitly required by law in CA
The right to record: CA Penal Code 1. 15. 1.5 - Section 632.
> [right to privacy from being recorded] but excludes a communication made in a public gathering or in any legislative, judicial, executive, or administrative proceeding open to the public, or in any other circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded.
Uniform police are required to wear identification: CA Penal Code 2.3 4.5 - Peace Officers Section 830.10.
> 830.10. Any uniformed peace officer shall wear a badge, nameplate, or other device which bears clearly on its face the identification number or name of the officer.
In addition to that most police departments (maybe all of them) in CA have policies that officers need to identify clear themselves when asked. It's also interesting to watch some of the "audit the police" videos on youtube. The asshole cops never want to identify, but the good ones behaving like cops you'd want to interact with, are all eager to share their identity. There's one video I remember where a cop, who was being a shitbag, said "we don't have cards" when asked for one, and two other cops also there, the ones worthy of being cops, instantly corrected him and both gave their card to him. So quickly I'm sure it's department policy to do so. One of them giving the shitbag cop the stink eye for lying to him.
Good cops don't feel the need to hide who they are.
https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-pen/part-1/titl...
https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-pen/part-2/titl...
