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But not everyone has the same negative attitude you do - which suggests that perhaps there is something about your demeanor that is inviting a negative interaction between you and the police.
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I'd say that if police officers aren't professional enough to disregard the demeanor of the people they interact with, then that is just another part of their problem.
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So you are saying that EVERY time you have been stopped the officer ALWAYS acted like an overbearing, arrogant jerk? Or does it just seem that way, in that your memory focuses on the worst experiences you had?
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I did try to make it clear that I was NOT talking about interactions in traffic stops or similar, as naturally my opinions on those could be seen as biased. I was talking about interacting in non-professional ways with people who happened to be police officers. For an instance, some years ago I was in a martial arts class with two men who were police officers. These two - both over 6' and fairly muscular - took positive delight in hitting the smaller students hard enough to seriously hurt them, until the sensei finally ejected them from the class. Or my ex's cousin, who after leaving her abusive cop husband, found herself being constantly followed by cop cars, and stopped on flimsy pretexts.
You could try a simple experiment yourself. Visit a police station with some simple request, and compare the attitude & manners of the police with those of a business employee faced with a similar request. The business employee will probably be polite and try to be helpful, while in all likelihood the police will be arrogant and condescending. Yes, it's an attitude problem: THEIR attitude.