I had another one tell me that my drivers' license wasn't legal because I'd gotten married, gone on my honeymoon for a week, been home 2 days and still hadn't had a chance to go down to the SS office or the DPS to change my name and get a new driver's license. Without my bringing up anything about me being married or not, he looked at my license asked me, "Is this your married name?" When I replied "No...I haven't changed it legally yet." He said, "Well, if you're married, then this license isn't accurate." I repeated to him that the name on the license was still my legal name because I hadn't had a chance to change it legally yet. He repeated, "Your license isn't accurate if it's still got your maiden name."
At that point, I just shut-up.
I won't argue law points with an officer but I will demand respect and sane behavior. You would be surprised what mentioning that you are willing to file a written complaint does to their attitude. They know that those sargents stripes or LT bars have just gone bye bye.
I've only done it once and had my attorney with me. The Chief came down to see if he could talk me out of it. I made a deal with him that I would withdraw it in one year if there wasn't any other reports filed on the officer.
One year and one day later I went in and wrote out the form to officially withdraw it after verifying that his record had stayed clean.