Oh good -- a lot of comments where HN armchair lawyers and civil rights experts get to argue how the world should work in their vision versus how the world actually works and debate the imperfections and injustices. Bonus for posting an issue that will give commenters a chance to air their libertarian bona fides.

If we only had all property ownership and rental records "on the blockchain" by now the police could just consult that and know for sure who owned a property or had a legitimate lease. If everyone had to carry and produce identification for the police they could check that against the title or lease agreement... well maybe we need biometrics and so on to protect against fake documents or false names, but I'm sure all of this is solvable with the right technology. Why don't we have an API that can tell the police who owns or rents what properties? What kind of world do we live in where human beings get to mess everything up like this?