Do you feel uncomfortable when police are around you?

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Bananaman177 · Accepted Answer

"police" does not equal "good person."

I remember hearing from a woman whose father was raping her when she was 8 years old, and he was caught in the act by a police officer, and all that happened was that after a brief conversation with the dad, the policeman raped her too, and kept his mouth shut.

That guy was probably a cop for 30 years or more, and if he ever died on the job, he would have received a massive hero's funeral. Just like they all do. Good, bad, or indifferent.

genericname85 · Accepted Answer

they somewhat always give me the feeling that i have to hide something even though i did nothing wrong.

Davis04 · Accepted Answer

I wanna be a police officer one day and kick ass = find out all the corrupt cops and make them pay for being complete assholes (they don’t deserve badges!). Too many of these cops get off scott free from doing inhumane things to civilians only because they think they’re above the law because they’re “police officers”. They can go F themselves😤

Secret6620 · Accepted Answer

Absolutely. I instantly feel guilty and start slowing down and getting paranoid. I have only been given a speeding ticket but its still a terrifying experience for me ♥️🥰

OlderAndWiser · Answer

No, I feel extremely safe when I am in the presence of law enforcement. I know that most of them are well trained, dedicated, and have their hearts in the right place!

shimmeryns · Answer

No not really. Their presence make me feel safe rather. Anyone feeling uncomfortable must have done something really wrong haha!

SjE78 · Answer

partly yes, due to having one of those faces where i seem to be questioned or persecuted without even being anywhere near the things they are investigating in at the time...

not saying i have never been arrested for things i wasn't connected to, but have been arrested once for something i did during defending a girlfriend at the time... and the 2nd time i was arrested was cos i had diffused a situation and protected my kids from someone who was intent on assaulting them... yet three weeks later i was arrested for ABH on said person when all i did was point at them and tell them to back off... yet cos of someone who was trying to protect their pervert son from being reported to the police and investigated for having a sex or grooming underage kids, they signed a so called witness statement and had me arrested... no proof but apparently cos of this statement that the person signed (even though they weren't there to see) the police had made up their own minds on my guilt...
and as such I was at the time facing a good length of time in prison for it, luckily for me I pointed out that the attacker's son had made death threats towards me and that had threatened to shoot and stab me...
when asked what i did in response... I told them i gave him my home address and told him what time i was gonna be in...

JackSmy · Answer

No, why should I? I haven't done anything wrong. When I had Jury duty, last year, I talked with several of the police that were there to testify (on other cases) and several of the Sheriff's deputies.
Mostly we talked about their weapons, that they carried, and I was surprised with a few. We talked about target shooting, and other things they liked to shoot, and some liked hunting, and they were just normal people!
Talking with them, passed the time, waiting, with all the 'courtroom stuff' and the 'waiting'!
The case I was on lasted three days, and I knew four of the deputies by name, and said 'Good morning' starting with the second day! They were totally cool, and just like a friend.

EmbraceThePain · Answer

You know, I strangely do for some reason. I never felt safer just because I was in the presence of police, nor have I ever felt particularly good with them around me. I don’t have any bad or extensive experience with police, so it’s not from that. I’m a criminal justice student and someone who is going into the law enforcement field in the near future, yet I feel a strange unsettling feeling when I’m around police. I don’t think they’re going to tackle me out of the blue, but I think my feeling is attributable to an overall sense that a gun has been introduced into the arena and an agent of the state might naturally attract more danger than if not present. It’s a lack of control as well, so if the police wanted to go hands on with me, then there’s not a lot I could do. Honestly, there’s probably more, but I’ll just leave it that for the time being.

WhiteSteve · Answer

Kind of. I just don’t like seeing them around, makes me feel like I live in a police state. I don’t think they’re all bad people or anything, but I definitely don’t agree with organized law & order, so we believe in very different things. So basically I demand to live the way I want to, by my own codes and standards, which aren’t really that different from the commonly accepted ones for the most part, but I’m not doing anything that doesn’t jive with my own reasoning, first and foremost. Other people will not control me in any way. I’ll fight that forever or die trying. So therefore, cops and I are forever at odds, although I’d say they’d likely be more trouble to me than I’d probably be to them. A cop pulled me over on my way home tonight, she was very pleasant, I have no ill will towards her, but the fact remains, no one should ever be able to stop me and check on my actions for any reason, I’m not accountable in life to anyone but myself, I don’t owe that to anyone.

Prettygurl12 · Answer

I am the police.

If you want to know what cops are like, the other day one of my coworkers went to a call about an opossum. He picked it up with his (gloved) hands. His partner took a picture of him holding this deranged looking night-dweller in the middle of the day. Now our department has opossum pictures cropping up in random places. This is the nonsense I have to deal with lol never mind the actual calls I get :p

We're just normal people doing a not-so-normal job and trying to go home to our families at the end of the day just like most everyone else.

Ronald_25 · Answer

No. I was a weird child. I've enjoyed baths, warm milk, vegetables, hospitals etc (sometimes all at once) since I was a kid. You know, things you're not meant to like as a kid.

There have been 164 replies but this is my two cents on the matter. I like the police. I think the film and media industry portrays them as the party poopers but they are just people. Sure some may secretly be rapists like bananaman177 has said. I am a civil engineer, and John Cramer from Saw franchise was one too, who the fuck saw that coming in his office?😂

Living in the UK we have some of the best police, with no guns as standard, fit & healthy and the ones I've dealt with have been nothing but friendly. They are just people like you and I, apart from the self sacrifice they are willing to make for our safety.

StephenCF · Answer

Naturally, yes. I’ve been interrogated twice for misdemeanors, so I instinctively think they’re there to hunt me down and arrest my ass 👮🏻‍♂️🚓😅 Shortly after my 2nd trouble with the law, I nearly had a panic attack when a policeman approached my checkout at work... but, to my relief, he was only buying lunch, not there to arrest me 😌 The paranoia continues to this day though 😨

naijagurl · Answer

Always. No specific reason really, I just start getting super paranoid.

BCA6010 · Answer

No. Why should I?

Well actually let me rephrase: I don't feel uncomfortable around police in the US or really any other north American or Western European country. While visiting communist or totalitarian countries, then *maybe* I will, but even then they usually just wave me by.

linds34 · Answer

It depends on the department. Police in my suburb aren't super good at solving crimes, but they aren't a threat at all so I don't feel uncomfortable. In the city, I do feel uncomfortable because there are a lot of bad cops there.

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J_Claire · Answer

I work at a coffee shop, and early in the morning there are a lot of police getting their morning coffees. I don’t mind this, but sometimes they bring their guns with them and I don’t mean pistols, I mean assault rifles. (I live in South Africa, where this is a common weapon for police and security forces)

When I see those big guns, I get really really uncomfortable, as I am a pacifist and I just wait anxiously for them to finally leave

SkipStop · Answer

Yes. Even though I am aware that I have nothing to hide or be afraid of, I just don't like cops keeping an eye on me or questioning me. I still do legal yet sometimes "Suspicious" things such as photography of trains, I do have an explanation and answers prepared. Cops and transit employees suspect I'm planning a terrorist attack or something by filming the transit system. I was demanded to show cops the videos I recorded.

markscott · Answer

I'm a little more careful when police are around. It's easy to accidentally do something illegal. But police are human too. We currently have a couple in the family, and have had others previously.

jgokgotit · Answer

Not really, except in traffic. Everyone in the DMV area speeds, so when I moved back down south my lead foot did not leave. I have to take extra effort to obey the lower speed limits in the south. Even if I am following the speed limit perfectly, when I see a cop I automatically tap the brake to slow down, thinking I'm going faster than I actually am. Anywhere else I usually seek them out to thank them for their service, buy them food or just chit chat if they do not look busy.

Kaazsz · Answer

Hell yea. Been a good boy my whole life but I’ve still had police harass me and treat me like shit for no reason. I’m a corny ass white boy who follows the law. Why the fuck are you fucking faggot fucks fucking with me? I can’t stand police.

spesh · Answer

it depends what the circumstance is,
if i jus stole from a store and have illegal goods in my pocket, then yes id be nervous,
or if i had my picture on the news for rape or something, id also be nervous,
but usually i jus see them walking through the street with no crime on my hands, so im calm

JamesRandiDebates · Answer

Definitely. Cops are always on the lookout 2 harass someone. It doesn't matter if you haven't done anything wrong. They will look for reasons. The pigs like to say if you haven't done anything illegal you have nothing to worry about from cops. That's been proven untrue time and time again. People who are completely innocent have the most to fear from badge fags..

tartaarsaus · Answer

Uh, it depends.

Like a couple weeks ago, I was sitting in a train, and suddenly like 5 police officers walked inside looking for some pickpocket. That is far more uncomfortable than e. g. checking into a train station and police being there or police just on the street.

Guanfei · Answer

Nope, because I've never done anything wrong, I'm not planning on doing anything wrong and therefore I don't look suspicious.
And when it happens that cops check me, which happened a few times, I stay polite, I answer clearly and honestly, and that's it, they leave, wishing me a good day, without troubles.

You'd be surprised at how many of those who complain about being badly treated by cops are actually the ones giving the said cops a reason to treat them like that.

El_Heffe · Answer

This question actually made me laugh. I am a rare one perhaps as I can and still do on occasion. I can literally talk up one side of any cop and down the other side verbally in complex law language citing all the while. This not only messes with them mentally as they have a brief connaissance of legal gender. I have used this to get police off my back and helped others too.

HereIbe · Answer

Yes. I have relatives who are cops, and I hear the shit they spew. Unless you personally know the cop in question, you have no idea what they're going to to if they've happened to have had a bad day and decide to make up some shit to pin onto you. Yes, it does happen.

Agirlcalledkill · Answer

Yes because they’re usually hot 🔥 and they make me uncomfortable 😂

Anonymous · Answer

Depends, the city's police I'm extremely afraid of because they have a rep for doing stuff to a few black people here, but the police officers associated with our school system are very nice and i actually feel safe around them. I even befriended one of the officers and now we share tacos on his lunch break whenever I see him 😂

girlsneedlove2 · Answer

I use to not when I was younger but as you get older and hear stories and see all this stuff on the news it kinda makes you wonder

Gypsy_x · Answer

No. I live in a small town and the police are lovely. I also interact with them a lot in my work, so they don't intimidate me.

bamesjond0069 · Answer

Yes. Because I've lived a pretty good amount of time and seen some instances of violence and accidents happen. I've never once seen a police help a situation and have seen multiple times where they made a situation much worse. So better to just be away from them.

They dont usually stop a problem but simply put someone in jail after the fact which isn't going to help me any if im dead.

Fuentes · Answer

I have been followed a few times lol so that makes me uncomfartable, never had a ticket, never been detained or arrested. What i figured out is the cop is playing mind games like waiting for me to get to paranoid and make a turn like im running away because I've done that but i was going to Carls Jr, once he followed me that far he/she turned off into the oppsite corner & did a u-turn and left lol like wtf

ShortCircuit · Answer

Only when I'm in a car. The only illegal thing I have any interest in doing is speeding, so unless I'm doing that, I have no reason to be uncomfortable because I'm not guilty of anything.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

Why should I? ... unless I'm hiding something illegal.

Just_a_human · Answer

No, I don't. I haven't had any interaction with the police.

Izumiblu · Answer

Yeah. I’m always worried they’re tailing me to my meth lab.

Andremoso · Answer

Normally I should feel more at ease and protected with a cop around me but unfortunately that's not the case. They make uneasy and uncomfortable because I just don't trust them at all. I feel like they out to get us and trap us rather then protect. They are financially and politically driven.

evm987 · Answer

Not in general. If I'm driving, I get really nervous that I might mess something up accidentally and get pulled over. But in any other situation, police presence is reassuring.

Phanta · Answer

Absolutely. Their goal is to make money of the citizens by looking for any possible violation, and creating one if necessary. I don't buy this idea that they're out to protect and serve.

Claireluvskaren · Answer

No, it makes me feel safer. I don't typically put myself in places where I can be at risk, but bad things can happen anywhere. 98.9% of police are good people.

purplepoppy · Answer

I hate it when I'm driving and there's a police car begin. I know I'm not doing anything wrong and I'm actually safer because of their presence but I always drive like a nun on a driving test

JamesBoradil03 · Answer

every time. I've had some run ins with the cops before, s so every time i see a cop car (even if its far awat) i instinctly look for escape routs.

mcskrilla32 · Answer

Yes that uncomfortable feeling occurs everytime they are behind me. Especially when they play games like they do in ak. Example: they will pass you, then slow down below the speed limit to see if you will pass them or not.

Wowgirl30q · Answer

Usually they are not around unless something bad happens so I'm usually relieved to see them

humanearth · Answer

Only when I'm driving. I drove without drivers licence for over 20 years.

Nik1hil · Answer

Yes.. Totally uncomfortable.. I start getting worried if I have drugs on me..

iFarted · Answer

No.. I see them as public servants. They work for us... theyre supposed to keep our space safe and civil.

MackToday · Answer

I think everyone does. Police are suspicious by nature no one wants them looking over their shoulder.

100Bandz · Answer

No. I've been racially profiled and falsely accused of things. I'm a law abiding citizen and don't get treated like one sometimes.

Anonymous · Answer

My dad (retired), uncle (retired), brother and ex is one of them, I used to be one also. So, no, I'm pretty comfortable around some. But of course all of them are different types.

Big_Tasty · Answer

Of course. Seeing how many black people get shot for just walking down the street with nothing but a phone. Cops make me anxious, but I try to keep my cool when I have to deal with them.

BestUserName100 · Answer

Only if they are evil type cops who you can’t trust. You got evil intentions and stuff. I like the good kind of cop tho.

PinkMichae · Answer

I do feel on guard until I get the feeling they are the good cops.

wankiam · Answer

no... not even in foreign countries but maybe its because im quite certain im not a criminal

MysticDevice · Answer

No, why would I? It's normal to feel heightened around them cause they're usually on serious business but you only have to be nervous if you're doing something wrong.

NovissimumVirorum · Answer

Nope, but then again we have family friends who are cops

Samhanks · Answer

Only if I see a stern and grouchy look on his/her face :)

JeremyT · Answer

I feel uncomfortable when there is a gun around me. Who ever is the bearer. You take the stupidest humain with a dead brain and you give him a gun and power to use it. Yes I feel uncomfortable around any police officer.

Anonymous · Answer

hell yeah i do. i start questioning the meaning of life n' all that when they're around

Anonymous · Answer

Yes I do. I grew up in a country in which the police were corrupt, and practically protected armed robbers. So it's still hard for me to not see every cop as such.

smg99 · Answer

No I like them I feel safer but yes alert to not slip a mistake by them.

Anet1256 · Answer

All the time, even though I am a shining example of a well-behaved citizen

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