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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
You may never have a single problem with the police, but if you do just one time, your whole perspective changes.
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This is the crux of everything, isn't it? What are you willing to do to fix that, which seems to be a problem with the general 'you'?
I used to live in the States. I got into a single motor vehicle accident. My car slid off the road and into a tree, knocking some bark off of it.
The small-town cop who responded was, frankly, an @$$hole to me and my wife at the time. Gave me the third degree, and offered to do everything he could in his power to help the homeowner sue me for damaging his property, if the homeowner wanted. The homeowner said that he was more worried about how me and my wife were (she hit her head on the windshield, cracking it) than about some dumb tree of his. The cop couldn't believe it, and asked him if he was really, really sure, then ended up giving me $500 worth of tickets (on top of my car being a write-off).
I could have let that color my experience with police my entire life (I've had a couple run ins with them previously, too) but I haven't. But according to your statement, I should hate every cop I see from now until I die, no?
I find that a lot of problems of perception come from folks lumping every single cop in North America into some blue amalgam "cop pool", when the truth is quite a bit different.