[TexasFreeper2009]

I think about just this situation whenever I have been pulled over. I try to have my ID out before the COP ever gets to the door. Reaching for a wallet or papers in a glove compartment can be misinterpreted VERY easily by a jumpy cop.

[cassiusking]

Do NOT start reaching for stuff as the cop walks up to the car.

Put both hands on top of the steering wheel where he can see them from a distance. This will keep every ones blood pressure down.

[TexasFreeper2009]

They need to start giving lessons to every public school child in America about how to deal with cops and survive.

[miss marmelstein]

I always have my identification out of the wallet and/or glove department. There’s always a minute or two between the cop pulling one over and the time he eventually gets to the car door. Another terrible story.

[rhoda_penmark]

” I try to have my ID out before the COP ever gets to the door. I try to have my ID out before the COP ever gets to the door.”

Back in the hippie days, they told us to always get out of the car with your drivers license etc. to meet the police. I don’t know if they are allowed to shoot you for that now, or not.

[attiladhun2]

"Jumpy cops" have no business in the profession. There are plenty of jobs being bread-truck drivers.

A cop drew down on me one time as I rounded a corner while he was searching a suspect's vehicle. He could have easily blown my head off. He would have been put on administrative leave, I'd a been dead, and my wife and daughter would have received a few hundred grand. In the meantime the cop probably would have retired by now making over $100,000 a year for sitting on his fat ass.

The job of an officer is to protect and serve, not pump caps into folks who aren't breaking the law.