What Cops Most Fear

This is what I do to avoid trouble when cops pull me over

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One of my friends was telling us about providing training to police officers. She is not in law enforcement, but she worked for a state education agency. She told me that for the most part, the young officers she taught were idealistic and wanted to help people. While law enforcement tends to attract authoritarian types, most of them, at least when they start out, seem to genuinely want to protect others. There are a few bad apples, of course.

“But most of the ones who want trouble gravitate to the larger cities,” she said. “Places like Chicago where they hope to see action.”

She also told us what cops most fear when they get a call.

“The two situations they hate most,” she told us. “Are domestic situations. Those can get out of control really fast. And they also hate traffic stops. Those are the situations when they are most in fear for their own lives.”

So how can we use this information to avoid trouble with the law?

Domestic situations

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