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Thats funny because I live where the police are the most impolite in the world and have rarely gotten a hostile attitude from them I my dealings with them.

It is unfortunate that dealing with the lowest of the low, lunatics, scam artists, deviants, mopes, cheats, crooks, drunks, addicts, wifebeaters, rapists, molesters, smartasses, ignoramouses and pissants can lower one's tolerance of the rest of humanity's foibles but what can you do? Send them to sensitivity training.

I work with construction workers all day.. bottom of the barrel, smoking drinking swearing misogynistic cretins who wouldn't recognize a manner if it slapped them upside the head, and I manage to not treat all guys as if they are that way.

Of course, I don't have an underlying belief that all guys are like that.

That is what I am afraid is true with the LEO... that it is Them against Us. And they are superiour in some way and they think of us all as sheep, not to be trusted and not to be respected.

And, I've been on a traffic stop before where the cop ambles up to the car, acting all cool, not even watching me, and then after seeing that his little game isn't working, and I'm not afraid (which is pretty stupid, considering what they do nowadays) getting arrogant and hostile, turning his back on me to walk back to the car to make me wait 15 minutes while he tries to find something to stick on me.

All the while, unknown to him, having a loaded firearm about a foot away from me. I don't think his hostility, rudeness or lack of respect came from him being afraid or cautious. I don't know where it came from, but when you tell the little mothers "no", they really don't like it.

That's another problem I have.. . You are perfectly within your rights to refuse to answer questions, have your car searched or even give your name at times, and yet they badger you and try to intimidate you into doing it. After invoking my constitutional and legal rights, one guy actually said "what constitution?" and he was being sarcastic I hope, and not just ignorant.

And I see too much of it.. time and time again. I'm sure there are good cops out there. I've just not seen any for a long, long time. Old ones are pretty cool....any of them short of 40 are a waste.