ever was a victim of crime -except having my car registration sticker stolen
'I never was a victim of a crime, except when I was a victim of a crime' ...
all my interactions with police have been positive.
You're lucky. And I didn't have any negative interactions with them either. In fact, I didn't have any interactions with them at all. But don't try to pretend that the PG County Police didn't have a rotten reputation during the later Parris Glendenning and Wayne Curry days.
how you conduct yourself and with whom you associate.
Being an upstanding citizen doesn't change the general atmosphere of criminality and lawlessness.
There is no place you can go where you can be guaranteed that you won’t be a victim of a petty crime like having a registration stolen, or even possibly violent crime.
I don’t recall hearing anything about police here having a ‘rotten reputation’, but I probably had no reason to hear. There are lousy cops everywhere who taint the rest.