I'm the same. I have nothing against LEOs. When a police officer sees me they certainly can't tell I'm the guy that wishes their jobs paid them much better.When I was a young man I thought the 5.0 was there to keep me down. I am fortunate enough to reach the age of 50 and my perspective has changed. In short I would kick my own younger self's ass...... repeatedly. Like with most of my fundamental beliefs I would like to think I have evolved.
There are so many povs in this thread would take to long to address them all, all equally considered however.
I don't like paying ticket but I don't like paying so much in taxes either.
In life, I try to plan for worst case scenario, where I now live, what I drive, what guns and ammo I have, just about everything.
I am positive that if it were my job to walk up on a auto mid-day or middle of the night, I would be ready for worst case and anything better than that is a great day. - so I guess this would make me a bad cop?
There are POS in every line of work. However, as a citizen we expect the benefit of the doubt and that breaking the law is a mistake....fair if indeed it is a mistake.
So I try to give any encounter with a LEO the same fair shake. If the LEO is not a good human , my being uncooperative is not going to help me in that moment at all.
As most things in this world it's not a black and white situation....it's all grey. I know I know but our rights are not grey, I get it. But anytime you put a actual human in the mix....it's all grey.