I'm not anti police, I'm anti a-hole police. The officer's complexion plays no role. I've had negative encounters with white and black officers alike. I have a family member that is a state trooper. He's been on the beat, a detective, and then became a state trooper. He's my cousin, but honestly, there was always something that rubbed me the wrong way about it, and that has a lot to do with his personality more so than him being a police officer.
1. I'm indifferent. IMO the election last year was to vote for the best of two bad choices, so I honestly did not vote for president. Just propositions and local stuff.
Never seen a PBA card. Usually though, if you're close enough to an LEO, when we run your plate it'll denote that you're family or related somehow and then generally its up to the officer/deputys discretion what they want to do. I have been ticketed by highway patrol for what its worth.
You can be pulled over for going 66 in a 65. I generally go 78 on the freeway and haven't been stopped. I don't really know anybody that would pull somebody over for that. Since I'm not highway patrol I rarely will ever do traffic enforcement on the highway/freeway. I think I've only written 2 tickets on the freeway and the people I pulled over were doing like 95 and weaving through traffic kinda errantly.
Not necessarily. When I did stupid stuff I was the butt of jokes but thats all over.
1. Just that one time that I explained earlier in this thread, but then he explained himself and it made sense to me. Basically I thought my partner pulled over a dude for being black. I told him thats ****** up and his technical reasoning was BS. Then he told me it was because he was wearing all red in a crip neighborhood so he wanted to find out who he was.
Probably. I wouldn't tail him though. And then you have to watch out for the next trooper.
Sure, first, I am not anti police. I support police officers on duty who do their jobs and protect and serve but we all know a lot of police officers do not do that.
1. There was a complaint of an assault. Like somebody called the cops? Whether it was by somebody in your household or your next door neighbor hearing things through the wall, we'll come knock on your door any time of day.
Fairly prepared. We have training in the academy and in refresher courses. Some officers take extra courses on the subject. We even have people specifically trained in psychological disorders that ride with officers every once in a while. It's not a crime to be crazy. If you meet our criteria though (either a danger to self, a danger to others, or you're gravely disabled) then we will take you to a hospital or a facility and put you on a hold for psychological evaluation. People think of the Alfred Olongo case and how he was said to be having psych issues when he was shot. I've heard a lot of people ask why there was no psych clinician there at the scene. The scene has to be safe before a clinician will even get out of the car.
I think there is a correlation between your personal experience encountering police officers particularly when they are aggressive and your attitude towards them. If you haven't had a lot of encounters with aggressive police officers at all it may be hard to understand others' bitter feelings towards police.
Tell em how you really feel
How ironic... the ones you were talking about were the "Dirty Coppers" 
