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I actually parked stupid in plain car once recently, blocking both handcapped spaces in a bank lot and sure enough grandma was being driven to the bank by her grandaughter (grandaughter was close to 60.)

Grandaughter put both hands up and gave me the look. I revealed my badge (I was in plain clothes) and finished my task.

After I was finished I went into the bank and apologized and explained.

You see....there was an armed (handgun) man who was wanted for assaulting a man and I had been trying to arrange via telephine for his surrender.

He was jerking me around and lying about his location. Bad luck for him he walked up and stood next to my passenger door as I was talking to him on the phone.

I had to give a complete description of him over the radio and then drive around through a parking lot and block traffic so that’s a responding units in marked cars would be able to arrest him without they’re backdrop if they had to shoot him not becoming a line of cars with innocent people waiting get shot on accident.

Now grandma and granddaughter have no way of knowing that even after I showed them my bad. And they probably would have been completely perturbed even after I had showed him my badge and they would have just assumed I thought I could do whatever I wanted because I was a cop.

But I took the time to go in and explain to them what was going on and that makes all the difference.

It is a shame that a lot of people look at the police and assume bad behavior when they just don’t understand why things are being done, but that’s the nature of the Beast. And I’ve always found explaining things to people one-on-one and politely usually makes things work out very well.

It would be great to wake up one day and have people look at the police doing things and assumed it was for a good reason, but I’m not going to hold my breath.