Originally Posted by Braddelauter
As a law enforcement officer, I have never forced anyone to talk to me (the secret pill doesn't exist). If you don't wish to talk to the police don't open your mouth. If the Officer has RS to stop you then you get stopped (Thanks to the founding fathers and the supreme court). If it expands to PC then you get arrested.
Law enforcement officers may talk to you, and we wouldn't know that you didn't want to be bothered until we asked. I can honestly say I can't ever remember having a conversation with someone that felt as if I were bothering them much less harrassing them. You as a person have the right to attempt to engage anyone in conversation and nothing is to prevent it. So do the police.
If a law enforcement/security type asks a relatively unfamiliar individual a question and that individual appears intent to not respond directly at all as the "authority" expected, and then walks (or runs) away quickly, what's the response of most law enforcement & security types? "That's suspicious"?
If an individual told such an "authority" that they don't want to deal with said "authority" and walked off and into their car, what percentage of "authorities" would run the license plate of the car when both became visibily identifiable?
At a checkpoint, refusing to respond to "authorities" generally results in smooth sailing? It must be a really nice place in the world.