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To: B-Chan
At my location I work regularly with approximately 20 different police officers. 19 of them are really great guys who get along with just about everyone. Most of them will go out of their way to help even those who give them very little respect. 1 is a complete jerk who swore at me and threatened to arrest me while I was doing my job. Everyone knows who he is and what he is like, but unfortunately it is not that easy to get rid of someone like that. They reassigned him so that he comes into contact with the public less.

My feeling is that if you are having a difficult time with the police on repeated occasions that there may be something about your mannerisms that the officers you are coming into contact with are interpreting as hostile. I have seen this at a lot of different scenes; I try to give helpful hints to people who I see who look like they are likely to get into some sort of confrontation with the police. It is human nature to pick up on nonverbal communication.

92 posted on 06/20/2010 7:12:40 PM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: fireman15
there may be something about your mannerisms that the officers you are coming into contact with are interpreting as hostile

I don't care. I reject the idea that I have to walk around on eggshells hoping that I don't accidentally trigger the latent cop-rage in some homicidal badge jockey. If cops are trained to be that sensitive to perceived "hostility", then the problem lies with them, not me. Unless I am committing a crime they have no business "interpreting" my behavior.

I have had several bad experiences with police over the years -- instances where police officers have gone out of their way and made an extra effort to treat me with disrespect or to use violence against me. I have never been convicted of any crime. F--k them, and f--k their vaunted "sensitivity" to "nonverbal communication".

96 posted on 06/20/2010 7:51:29 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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