I might have misunderstood: I thought these were checkpoints, meaning that you'd have to drive through them and (presumably) present your license. No license wh

I might have misunderstood: I thought these were checkpoints, meaning that you'd have to drive through them and (presumably) present your license. No license while driving should mean having your car impounded on the spot, at the minimum; if NJ doesn't do that, it's a policy failure. There was another article suggesting that this driver was also driving without a mounted plate, which I assume would similarly have been caught. But I take your point for other cases, if they aren't checking licenses.