You 100% did it right. Treat the officer as a person. Most of the people I summonsed talked themselves into it.
Thank you,
I’m surprised at some of these responses in here that if I was an officer, I would take in a negative way.
People need to lighten up and that’s exactly my point and why my entire life I have had respect for police. I was certainly no angel growing up in the wild 60s and 70s. Partying drinking racing cars up and down Hempstead Turnpike on Long Island. Every time a light turned green.
Police officers are no different than any of us. They have a job to do. Why make their job harder, talk to them and be respectful like a human being who is enforcing the law and don’t make up BS excuses.
You may find that goes a long way.
I have never had a bad experience with a police officer. In case you don’t know, police have family, friends, and children themselves.
One example would be when I was in high school, my last year of high school, I was drunk as a skunk driving my 67 GTO. By the time, I realized it police officer was pulling me over. Minutes later, I was surrounded by police officers. Same deal when they asked if I was drinking, I could hear my words slurring so I told him southern comfort with Coca-Cola. Back then they were always busting kids for drugs in school so they asked me if I had drugs in my car. I said no. They asked for permission to search it. I said yes.
On top of it, the parking lot that I pulled into had a police booth in it. That’s a place where police change shifts.
Sometime later, the police officers partner comes over to me and says I don’t know why my partner is doing this, but we’re going to pull your car next to the police booth, you’re going to leave it there overnight and pick it up in the morning.
In the meantime, they gave me a ride home and actually stopped a couple houses before my house so no one saw me get out of a police car.
At the time I did have a PBA card on my dashboard and a PBA badge in my wallet. Whether or not it may have made a difference I don’t know. The reason for that is, I never pointed it out to them or suggested, nor boasted because I support the PBA and have many friends who are police officers that came into the business where I worked part-time. Once a great while a curious cop would ask back then.
I don’t know maybe because I was going to actually be a police officer on Long Island myself. I actually took the police exam to be what was called at the time, a junior cadet, but another opportunity came up so instead of waiting on a list to be hired I didn’t pursue it anymore.
But for some reason, a good percentage of the public has this confrontational attitude that is uncalled for.
