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Here's the little mental exercise I go through before dealing with any type of law enforcement personel:
1. Remember High School.
2. Remember the guys who became cops right after High School.
3. Remember what those guys were like in High School.
4. Realize that they weren't the smartest guys you knew and that they tended to have serious authority/power/control issues related to their childhood schoolyard experiences. These items, coupled with a dangerous, easily damaged caveman-type ego equals DANGER for me (and you, and any other citizen).
That said, when I do find myself having to talk to a law enforcement officer and I find him to be both intelligent and reasonable I always ask if he got into law enforcement right after High School (just to test my hypothesis). I've found that the best of the cops out there usually came to the job after doing something else for a while, like serving in the military.
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