Originally Posted by ECHO24

Remote ID is not "feel good legislation" it's part of the mandate (2016) for integrating drones into the national airspace.
National sercurity agencies became more involved because of high profile drone incidentst like the drone assassination
attempt in Venezuela in August, 2018.

Mainly, though, it's because drone flyers are basically idiots. There were 77 no-fly drone incursions at the Super Bowl this
year and 74 last year:

"If you’ve never been to a Super Bowl, it’s more than just the game itself. It’s 10 days of events in about 26 different
venues. On game day, there was an entire team of people to mitigate any drones that came into the airspace. We
had the ability to track drones up to 50 miles out, and on game day our no-fly zone was 30 miles out. And they could
mitigate a threat within a one-mile to three-mile radius.

There were 74 drones observed in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. They were running after drones constantly.
There were 10 drones observed on game day, and in fact the Blue Angels flyove was disrupted by a drone. The Blue
Angels actually had to elevate their altitude because of a drone."

Remote ID will at least allow security officials to focus on actual threats:

"This will help the law enforcement agents distinguish drones properly registered under Remote ID as belonging to
hobbyists from drones that are potential threats operated by criminals. If a drone approaches the event without this
automatic identification system, it will alert the agents that the drone is not registered, which can be considered a
factor in determining whether the drone constitutes a threat."