Quote Originally Posted by Aragorn243 View Post
Obviously it can mess up your day especially if they decide to take you into custody. Not likely unless you make an *** of yourself and tick them off.
This is where the citizen must really work on themselves.
You must try to keep in mind that it is not the man in front of you who is oppressing you, but his "masters".
The only thing is that sometimes even the best officer says the wrong thing in the wrongest way to the wrong person.
I imagine myself in one of those days... I guess everyone of us can understand what I mean, one of those days where you are intimately upset. Where maybe lots of tiny things have gone wrong, someone has got you nervous...you're just at the edge of your capability of keeping calm. For many or even no reason, you're just so. And right at that moment comes an officer who strokes you against the grain...
The more the tension rises, the more everybody must be careful interacting with the police and the police with people.
A colleague of mine, who has been a policeman for quite a few years and still is co-operating with them as a volunteer, showed me the internal guidelines sent to the police chiefs and to the government by our national chief of the police.
He admonishes all his men not to act following reports from other citizen, especially for things happening in private homes. To be extremely careful and not fine as long as the behaviour was really completely out of tolerable, to be as comprehensive as possible with older people and also with kids. Lots of such very good and very common sense instructions. What I liked most, however, is that he reminds his men, and so also the government, that it would be a good thing to have all the new regulations checked by our constitutional court, because there are plenty of doubts about lots of topics concerning the Covid-regulations. That the Police is still subject to the Constitution and not the government.
A ray of sun...