Originally Posted by copwriter
I have to wonder what the rest of you have been up to for you to maintain this level of paranoia.
What paranoia? FAMs or other LEOs detaining me provides me with no benefit whatsoever whether I'm guilty or innocent. Why waste my time or take any risks? Or entertain this ridiculous terror of terror hysteria?
All of my conversations with LEOs so far have been with them as either the victim of a crime or a witness to one, BTW. Unless you count three traffic stops, one of which resulted in a minor ticket, none of which were in the last five years. Since I happen to be white, clean cut, well educated and pretty articulate, conversations with LEOs (or anyone with authority in the US) go pretty smoothly. (Especially versus some of my FlyerTalk friends who happen to be the "wrong" race.) I don't have a personal grudge against LEOs.