“I hate that keep your hands where the cop can see them stuff. It presumes a subservience owed by the citizen to the public servant. “
That’s not subservience. Its politeness and commons sense. Maybe it’ll help you to think of it as an original salute, showing that your hands are empty.
But if it makes you feel better, assert your dominance. You show em who’s boss. lol
Funny thing, I am always polite to cops. They are always polite to me. I pull way over so they don’t have to stand in traffic. It never occurs to me that they might think I am a threat. It does occur to me that a car might hit them. I get let go with a warning.
Like I said, privilege. Except for those spotlights at night. And some expectations of conduct here, which I don’t think would have been the same twenty years ago.
By the time I’m an old lady, you would think even less threatening than I am now, it wouldn’t surprise me if citizens are expected to lie prone on the pavement for a tail light stop.