I agree that I’ve been stopped when my safety sticker or auto registration is expired or tail light is broken or not working. even so, I am spoken to politely and not threatened and never have feared that I would be assaulted or arrested by law enforcement.
If I or my loved ones don’t have our wallet, we may be given a citation for driving without our license and/or auto insurance but never gave the car towed. The ticket is dismissed when we mail in proof that we had a valid license in force at the time the citation was issued. In the 4 years I sat as a traffic judge, no car was ever towed because the driver didn’t have his/her license when stopped, no matter what race the driver or officer was.
Towing is an extreme measure and costly–you have to pay the tow company cash and have to pay storage for how ER long they keep your car! It seems extreme to me for cars to be towed just because the driver doesn’t have a license on his/her person.