Reply #14: Give me police perspective.......

[avb7]

Do you as a police officer have any idea how people who are pulled over for a routine traffic infraction feel when the officer approaches the car. It has been my experience that the officers treat everyone as if they are a threat and that bothers me to no end. Do you people realize that the officers, in the vast majority of cases, are the ones who have the gun!!! Now I do understand some degree of nervousness on the part of the officer and there are instances of traffic stops "going bad", but the vibes that most of your fellow officers put out is that I am the dangerous one and I am treated as a threat, when in fact I pose no threat to anyone. I, for one,resent this behavior and it does nothing to make me sympathetic to law enforcement. I would appreciate your thoughts.