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In reply to the discussion: If you are white, did your parents give you "the talk" about how to behave around police? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)But Dad did insist (and real cops I asked disagree with him) that I should allow no cop to stop me at night. I should drive to the police station. He was convinced a real cop would follow me there respectfully.
There were some cases of cops murdering and kidnapping women, which brought about this sentiment. The Hillside murderers pretended to be cops, and that's how they stopped some of their victims.
It's advice to white people too to keep our hands on the wheel, etc. I had to go to traffic school for a ticket once, and the cop there said that remember, they don't know who you are - you could be Bonnie or Clyde. They just don't know. There are cases where cops have been shot by somebody they stopped for a traffic violation. That cop in fact asked us what does a violent criminal look like? He said there is no way to tell - they could look like any one of us. So I generally think of the cop as being scared of me, lol.
And they get politer the older I get. I don't know if that's because older women are thought unlikely to be violent or if they are better trained - so as to avoid escalation where it doesn't have to happen.
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