Originally Posted by Dutch
Originally Posted by gitem_12


You're absolutely right, addressing someone's as sir and asking him numerous times to go sit in his car, without compliance, then telling him to sit in the car while still a dressing him as sir, and continuing to use a calm conversational level voice while still continuing to address him as sir after the guy tells him "ok, arrest me", is highly unrespectful, and just downright derogatory


So as long as you call someone "Sir", you can escalate to your heart's content?

Kinda like calling someone an [bleep] followed by "bless his heart"?

Bless your badge heavy little heart......


Yeah, that whole "sir" routine isn't really very effective. It has an impersonal tenor to it. I have never seen it have any appreciable deescalating effect.