Originally Posted by elkhunter76
Are you for real? Many of my FRIENDS are LEO. Sorry you live in a state of confusion. You have my sympathies.....
I think the author of that article has a point. Encounters with cops are very dangerous, even if you're an upstanding non-criminal citizen.

A couple of months ago, I was taking my evening constitutional in my own neighborhood, a practice of mine for many years, and I was rushed by four occupants of two police squad cars, and quickly surrounded and approached. Immediately, I imagined myself being slammed to the ground, possibly being seriously injured, because these guys had me mistaken for someone else. Didn't happen that way (they were gentlemen), but that could be because I reacted in just exactly the right way to save myself from said injuries. Had I deviated in any degree from the behavior pattern that I displayed that night, perhaps allowing fear to control my behavior rather than my rational mind, I may well have been seriously injured, or even killed.