Thanks for this extensive explanation. I’ll be on a holiday in the USA with my family this summer. And kind of on a road trip between Washington and New York and back. With all the rights that I have … when asked for my ID … aren’t you just going to advise me to … … ?

I know I posted this at the ‘the police problem’ community. But I thought that when pulled over by the police, giving your drivers licence, to show you’re allowed to drive, doesn’t do any harm. It’s common practice in Belgium to check if all your ‘papers’ are in order. And if so, you’re back on your way.

I don’t think of the Belgian police as being dangerous. But possibly because of the difference in amount of police officers (it seems to be 13.000 in Belgium, 900.000 in USA) you can report on more wrongdoings in the USA than in Belgium, but overall (per capita) the relative amount of incidents could compare? It can come over as naive but I just couldn’t understand what could go wrong by showing your ID.

Thanks for the warning 🙂 Sometimes I still think I have as much spare time as 10 years ago 😉

This got mee googling Nextcloud and I think I’m going to give it a try 😱