Sometimes you need to assert your rights just because you need to remind the cops they operate under legal authority and are not authorities unto themselves.
Other than a person with a weapon, the scariest thing to (most but not all) cops is a person with a knowledge of the Constitution and his/her rights (real ones).
Precisely. I'm a strong supporter of local and state police, even certain federal officers, even when they're just doing their job, etc., but at some point, someone has to 'take point' on the pushback. That's 'doing my job,' too.
I'm also a big believer in the 'right to hide nothing,' and under the right circumstances force the local gendarmerie to force a sobriety test on me for the negative result, since I neither drink nor do illegal drugs.
There is lawlessness loose in the land these days, and we are being ruled by capricious corrupt children, and these methods are all about bottlenecking a larger problem for convenience and optics of literal monsters. I'm not above throwing a wrench into this process, if that's what it takes.
I'll choose my own battles and the ground to do battle on, however. You can count on it.