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>If a cop has an attitude, the less you say the better.

This is a good rule of thumb even with ostensibly nice cops. No need to be rude or combative, no need to go psychotic libertarian tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist who refuses to respond to questions and just starts shouting AM I BEING DETAINED (and I don’t know if I actually believe that people do this in real life, but I often see internet dweebs pretending that this is their MO online), but it’s always in your best interest to shut the fuck up and offer only the minimum information requested when a law enforcement officer is asking questions. Quietly, calmly, and politely. It’s really easy for a talkative or nervous person to invite a cop to be suspicious, or even to give a cop an attitude, and before you know it, you’ve accidentally consented to being searched, detained, or worse.

A friend of mine was driving in a national park (I think also in Utah, coincidentally, or somewhere else out West) with his girlfriend; they’re hippies, and happened to have a pinecone on their dashboard that had been with them for their whole cross-country road trip. The officer asked if the pinecone had been picked up in the park, they started stammering something about how they’d brought it from home, and they eventually ended up giving the officer permission to search the car without meaning to. There was a tiny quantity of marijuana in the glove compartment, a single joint or maybe even just a roach, and because they were on federal land, they ended up with federal possession charges. They didn’t go to jail or anything, but they had something like a year in which they were subjected to a bunch of random court-ordered drug tests. My friend would be called at six in the morning to go pee in a cup on his way to work.

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>Are you sassing me son?How do you respond when out of state and you say the wrong thing to a cop?

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How do you respond when out of state and you say the wrong thing to a cop?