Sparky Kronkite
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Facial ProSmiling - (proactive smiling)
This may be the difference between good and bad police work. And also being a part of being a smart and safe citizen.
IF: the Orange person on the yellow horse on Ave. A at 3am (Suspicious? I think so.) - smiles in comfortable gesture and a familiar greeting toward a police officer who "maybe/might" be thinking negative things about the Orange person -
AND……..
IF: said police officer smiles back the same way………
THEN: perhaps all respect, enough respect, just enough respect, has been paid toward one another to allow "real police work" - which I strongly believe, must include "intuition" (or whatever you might want to call "rational, logical deduction, via cumulative knowledge through experience") - and some sort of a "smart dialogue" - to proceed from that point.
Maybe, like many things "it's all in the approach."
Yeah, I would agree, you can't be too careful these days -
But in my experience, my driving I-95 - I've seen it, I've seen the cops come up, pistols drawn or hand-on-the-butt of their pistol, cautiously from the rear of a vehicle - and not a smile for miles.
Often when "I'm" pulled over they seem far too stern. Just because you're a little lead footed or have goofed and made a driving mistake - is no real reason for any huffy (you better respect me and the law, buddy) sort of stance. Obviously most folks pulled over for traffic offences are not hard criminals - so why can't the cops lighten up a little - why can't they attempt a smile.
Driver's too - that's what I do. To me it's obvious - it's always a big time, loose-loose situation to take a cops hardcore presentation wrong and come back at the officer with any, even the slightest bit of belligerence. I always smile - "afternoon officer - yeah I know I goofed back there, here's my license." Why would you do anything else but smile and agree toward a man with a gun and a badge? People are stupid, they must be. Just because they think they have rights, just because they know they have rights, just because the "actually do" have rights - doesn't mean they can show attitude toward an officer of the law. I mean they can - but it's foolish.
No! When they have their uniform on, their badge on, a particularly a Glock on - they are not people like you and me - they just aren't. You/we can't possibly expect to treat them that way. Especially in a questioning, negative way.
You know what the cops here did to Amado Diallo (I don't know how to spell his name) was very, very wrong - but Amado was stupid. He made a big stinky seen. He would not calm down. He got very belligerent. If he'd just used his brain and shut the fuck up - none of that would have happened. He would not have even been arrested. He had done nothing wrong, he would have walked, just like the other hundred or so folks did. He wasn't fighting. He was just yelling about injustice and he got the wrong end of the justice stick later that night.
Ya know - if there's a bad cop, doing bad things - don't tell him to his face, at the seen, that you're going to report him - shut the fuck up (it could save your life or from getting a stick shove up yer ass) - go away and report it later.
Smile people. Both sides - smile. Even if you don't mean it. It's the proper approach.
Use yer brains and smile.
This may be the difference between good and bad police work. And also being a part of being a smart and safe citizen.
IF: the Orange person on the yellow horse on Ave. A at 3am (Suspicious? I think so.) - smiles in comfortable gesture and a familiar greeting toward a police officer who "maybe/might" be thinking negative things about the Orange person -
AND……..
IF: said police officer smiles back the same way………
THEN: perhaps all respect, enough respect, just enough respect, has been paid toward one another to allow "real police work" - which I strongly believe, must include "intuition" (or whatever you might want to call "rational, logical deduction, via cumulative knowledge through experience") - and some sort of a "smart dialogue" - to proceed from that point.
Maybe, like many things "it's all in the approach."
Yeah, I would agree, you can't be too careful these days -
But in my experience, my driving I-95 - I've seen it, I've seen the cops come up, pistols drawn or hand-on-the-butt of their pistol, cautiously from the rear of a vehicle - and not a smile for miles.
Often when "I'm" pulled over they seem far too stern. Just because you're a little lead footed or have goofed and made a driving mistake - is no real reason for any huffy (you better respect me and the law, buddy) sort of stance. Obviously most folks pulled over for traffic offences are not hard criminals - so why can't the cops lighten up a little - why can't they attempt a smile.
Driver's too - that's what I do. To me it's obvious - it's always a big time, loose-loose situation to take a cops hardcore presentation wrong and come back at the officer with any, even the slightest bit of belligerence. I always smile - "afternoon officer - yeah I know I goofed back there, here's my license." Why would you do anything else but smile and agree toward a man with a gun and a badge? People are stupid, they must be. Just because they think they have rights, just because they know they have rights, just because the "actually do" have rights - doesn't mean they can show attitude toward an officer of the law. I mean they can - but it's foolish.
No! When they have their uniform on, their badge on, a particularly a Glock on - they are not people like you and me - they just aren't. You/we can't possibly expect to treat them that way. Especially in a questioning, negative way.
You know what the cops here did to Amado Diallo (I don't know how to spell his name) was very, very wrong - but Amado was stupid. He made a big stinky seen. He would not calm down. He got very belligerent. If he'd just used his brain and shut the fuck up - none of that would have happened. He would not have even been arrested. He had done nothing wrong, he would have walked, just like the other hundred or so folks did. He wasn't fighting. He was just yelling about injustice and he got the wrong end of the justice stick later that night.
Ya know - if there's a bad cop, doing bad things - don't tell him to his face, at the seen, that you're going to report him - shut the fuck up (it could save your life or from getting a stick shove up yer ass) - go away and report it later.
Smile people. Both sides - smile. Even if you don't mean it. It's the proper approach.
Use yer brains and smile.
