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I get nervous about seeing a cop around me when I'm driving. It's too easy to get pulled over for too many things. Speeding, tail light out, the person in front of you swerves towards you, so you swerve over and the cop only sees you, etc, etc, etc. It's just too damned easy to get pulled over and get a ticket while driving. So I usually try to at least get the cop in front of me so I can watch him instead of him watching me.
If I'm not driving, it's a whole different story. They don't bother me at all then. I don't really feel any safer with them around than without them around, but I don't feel any animosity towards them either. Most of them anyhow, there's always going to be the jerks, but I dislike them on a personal level, it has nothing to do with their profession.
The one thing that I don't get is the gratitude that everyone thinks that they should get. I am grateful to them for doing their job, but I'm also grateful to the person that delivers my mail, the person that fixes the roads, and the person that fixes my food at a restaurant. Being a cop is a job, just like any other, they get paid to do it, there's benefits to the job and drawbacks, but being a police officer does not raise someone's stading in my eyes at all.
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