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Originally Posted by Kevin
This assumes that the subject can be positively ID'd as 12, doesn't it? Especially for females, and I'll bet cross-racial IDs are even worse, telling the difference between a 12 year old and a 15-16 year old is not something which can be easily done.
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Police can generally determine that a person is under the age of 18 and there are procedures to guess the age range (if not the exact age) if no ID is present.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Police officers aren't engaged in an age-guessing endeavor when they are arresting a suspect.
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Police officers are engaged in a number of things which includes gauging age range. That is one of the ways in which truancy, legal drinking age, and runaway laws and practices have always been possible both with and without an identification card.