PRMoon said:
No offense but you have no idea what you're talking about. Until you've actually been in the position of a police officer, your opinion based on perspective counts for absolutely zero. I've done ride alongs (as part of my juvinlie sentancing) in baltimore and sat at a patrolmans desk looking through records. Situations that seem perfectly safe can not be assumed as such because that's how police officers die. They have no way of gaguing the mental state of the person they're pulling over for a routine traffic stop. They don't even know if you're the owner of the car until they ask for your liscense. In vegas, the police force in north town is almost garunteed to use their gun at least once a month. Some of them actually request to work there because they get to use their guns. I know this because I spend alot of time with police officers. Free time and unfortunately jail time.
No offense, but your actually the one who doesnt know what hes talking about. If situations that seem perfectly safe are how cops die like you say, then this means that cops should fear old ladies just as much as they should fear a black man. If cops really are totally ignorant like that where they "just cant tell", then maybe cops should require a "hand show" no matter who or what the situation is for any pull over. But its not like that. And becuase its not like that, this is why cops do it sometimes and sometimes dont.
But the fact is, they can tell if the risk is high or low, dont act like cops are ignorant. I know that some cop deaths were from situations that seemed safe, but most deaths were from situations that did seem dangerous (ie the tag run says a stolen car. you can run their tag and know immidietly if they got insurance or if the car is stolen, you dont even need to pull them over to know if the car is stolen unless they dont have a tag at all, but that would be suspicious anyway). So if most deaths are from dangerous seeming situations, then this means when a cop experiences a "safe" situation, its a safe assumption to assume he is at low risk (no pun intended).
This does remind me though about the last time I got pulled over cause of my stickers. The police officer walked up to my car and knocked on my window and I rolled it down. After i gave him my liscense I asked him why he didn't have me put my hands out the window? (I have california tint on my side and rear windows, so you can't see sh*t. He immedeately asked me if I had any weapons or narcotics in the car. I said no and I will concent to a search if he so wished. He told me sometimes he doesn't see any risk. I then asked him if that was dangerous and he replied "VERY". Anyway he let me off for my sticker because I told him I was getting my car fixed before I could get it smogged. Thank god cause I hate going to the court house for those fixable tickets. Takes so much time.
its only "very" dangerous becuase there will always be that risk of being shot, its always their and never goes away. But this apparently doesnt keep cops from acting cautious sometimes and lax at other times. Driving a car in general is also "very" dangerous (risk of car accident, which can lead to death), in fact more so than a "safe seeming" pull over, but does this mean people need to act afraid everyrtime they drive? no, so then why did the cop need to act afraid in the situation I speak of?
