[blackdog]

There was a guy sitting in a pickup outside my house, facing the intersecting street. I went out and asked him if he needed something? He responded "No, thank You". I asked him if he was seeing a neighbor or waiting for someone? He said, "no". I then told him I was taking a picture of his vehicle on my house camera DVR, and pointed to it, the one focused on the street. He then showed me his detective badge and politely asked me "not to do that". He explained he was watching a house around the corner, looking for a narcotics suspect. I asked him if he wanted some coffee while he waited? He said "Sure", and "Thank You", and asked me not to discuss his activity with anyone. I said sure.

Some cops are really quite decent people. I wish they could find more of them.

[lee martell]

That detective in the pick up kept his cool and stayed polite. It’s good to be reminded that we still have some professionally behaved officers out there. The scenario could have become agitated very easily with just one profane phrase or angry expression.

[Hieronymus]

90% give the other 10% a bad name.

[ladyjane]

A few years ago there was a cop sitting in the courtyard in front of my house. He was in a marked car. I went out and asked him if there was a problem or if there was anything he needed and then I saw he was reading a Hustler magazine. I brought him some bottled water. I figured he needed to cool off.

[Celtic Conservative]

I had something similar happen. I was working uniform security doing parking lot patrol for a “big box” type store located in a iffy part of town. I sometimes zoomed back to check out the back of the store and the loading docks as part of my perimeter check. While doing this I noticed a beat up old truck with a long haired, scruffy guy in it. I took note, and kept going. Next time around he was still there, so i spotlighted and pulled up to him. Before I could say a thing he pulled out a sheriffs star and said “I’m working, please get the hell away from me!”. I turned off the spotlight, said “you got it!” and immediately drove away. About an hour later, he comes around from the back in his truck, pulls up next to me and apologizes for yelling at me. He told me he was trying to set up a controlled buy and I was kinda in the way with my marked vehicle. I said no problem, shook his hand and wished him luck.

CC

[EC1]

I’d point out that you were not only lucky with the detective in question, but you ticked all the boxes a GOOD LEO looks for.

- courteous
- aware of what was happening in your area
- street surveillance (honest cops love people with that!)
- non-confrontational

Basically you were/are doing the things that makes their job easier. They do like that.

[Revelation 911]

Same thing happened when we were kids in the 70’s....local unmarked in our culdesac for days....moms calls to police were ignord until she insisted theY check it out....theY ended up camping in our kitchen for a week and surveilled from there