Doesn't simply driving by the police make you feel like a criminal? Or as if you did something wrong?

Maybe its just a 'Southern' phenomenon, but when I past the police I suddenly feel like a drug dealer, or a baby puncher or something. Of course I don't break any laws, but when I see a police car......I kinda tense up, and then stare intently at my rear view, as if I'm just waiting for them to whip around and swoop in behind me like a cheetah. It doesn't help that weird things happen to me. So, the day I DO get pulled over, it will be on the same day that Osama decides to hide in my trunk with a rusty machete, while I'm inside Walmart buying socks and fish food. And on the way out I'm going to purchase one of those cheap plants for my mom, (or my girlfriend depending on who I see first) but its really going to be the worlds first hybrid extra potent cannibus plant.....and when I get pulled over the drug dog is going to be so overwhelmed with the scent of cannibus he will have cardiac arrest. So not only will I be arrested for aiding a terroist, but also 'killing' a federal dog.

If the officer is male, I immediately look into the rear view mirror...I think that I do that because, at the moment, I don麓t want to look at the face of the approaching officer.Last year, I experienced a very uncomfortable confrontation with two German police officers that involved racial discrimination and profiling while driving from the Swiss border to the German border. I defended myself, but inadvertently lost my cool and ended up screaming. Wasn麓t very smart, but we all make mistakes sometimes. Since that time, however, I slow down, look them in the eye, and 9 times out of 10, I am allowed to pass.
A new female German border police officer stopped me recently, looked at my passport, asked me to open my trunk, looked in my trunk, looked at my passport... then complimented me on the fact that I smiled the entire time and that I look 35 in contrast to my age indicated on my passport(1957):-)

You should read Kings and Queens of Africa, attend a Barack Obama campaign, or listen to a recording of his State of the Union address. Very inspiring and energizing!!

Check out Denzel麓s movie, The Great Debators,---lots of lessons given in this film.

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It doesn't have that effect on me, except that I do tend to slow down if there's a cop on the road. That said, I live in Southern California and the speed limit is only a recommendation there. I see cops go by doing 80 all the time. If they do 65, it causes a traffic jam.

I'm white, and feel the exact same way.

Except for the last part of the question, where it veers into pot, K-9 units, and Osama Bin Laden.

If I'm driving a near a cop I drive more cautiously and make sure to follow the speed limit. But I don't really expect them to pull me over or anything.

I lean more towards the thought that they could pull me over, shoot me in the face (just because they feel like it), make some bullshit up, and it would never be questioned.

Since i don't speed or break the law,

It doesn't bother me a bit to drive by a cop.

I usually wave at them as I go by.

Everyone seems to hate cops, untill they need one !!!!!

It always makes me a little uptight. Didn't have the words for it before your question!

Well said.