I am rarely even pulled over, but maybe once every three years I’ll get pulled over for speeding. I have found that if I smile and joke with the officers, they are almost always nice. I haven’t actually gotten a ticket since I was about 17. Usually they just give me a warning. I have never been arrested either.
I've only been pulled over a handful of times in 20 years. I'm going on at least five or six years ticket-free. Yes, smiling sometimes works. It didn't with this one donut eater, though. He said my efforts to keep my hands visible (i.e., on steering wheel) made me look suspicious. You just can't win with some of these jerks.
I got a speeding ticket in October. Of 1973. That was my last moving violation.
For some reason cops seem to like me. A few years back I had a visit from the narc squad, they were quite pleasant and professional, did their search, found little. I had a used 5 gal Freon drum for waste engine oil and someone had reported I was running a meth lab.
No muss, no fuss, thank you and have a nice day.