Look it up yourself, dudette.
Nobody wants "their boat rocked", but you clearly describe police response as being to mess with those who do it, i.e.:
"I could go on about other practices that are taken for granted, yet antithetical to 'American' culture, values, and founding princ"
I'd call that police "messing with", you can call it whatever you wish.
papertyger: "I just gave you an example of the cognitive dissonance, without which, a cop will not be allowed to advance higher than ticket writer."
No, you cited only your own experience so I countered it with my experience, which has been different.
I don't recognize what you describe, outside the fantasies we see in some action-adventure movies or TV series.
papertyger: "It's awfully hard for me to give unqualified support to an entire profession when by all indications that profession requires, either by inclination or by training, one to be a high functioning sociopath."
I don't agree with your characterizations.
papertyger: "But you don't have to take my word for it.
Just watch a few YouTube videos of lawyers speaking on how (and why) to behave when stopped by the police."
Oh, well then, that absolutely clinches your argument.
If it's on YouTube then nobody can dispute it, must be 100% true 100% of the time.
So I surrender to your vastly superior facts & reasons.
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Would to God!
Your problem is you won't surrender to anything. All you do is gainsay, then slap on the first rationalization you can cook up for it.
If what you're looking for is someone to massage your ego, and confirm how smart you think you already are, how about you find a nice support group more suited to that and stop wasting our time.
Failing that, how about actually reading the responses you get instead of associating them with the closest cliche you can think of, then firing off a response to your own straw man.
Clearly, your response to my comment about making distinction between wanting to be left alone, and what one will do when that tranquility is disrupted, indicates someone who is profoundly lacking in intellect, or suffering from an inferiority complex on par with a solitaire cheat, and in either case would argue against "the law of identity" if found on the wrong side of it.