Comment Re:...liabilities (Score 1) 431
Then they ought to treat you like a responsible nonviolent citizen until they figure it out. I'd have a hell of a lot more respect for police if they did this.
However, there is a very strong reason why they won't do this, which is that they're police, and so have to deal with irresponsible violent citizens a lot, including those who appeared to be responsible nonviolent ones. So doing that gets police officers killed, or at least injured, and their fellows stop doing that--at the very least, they start treating everyone like a potential threat--and then they inculcate that attitude in new officers. The only way to get around it would be to either have angels for police, which is obviously not very likely, or angels for the policed, which isn't really very likely either.