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[–] darthsuegar ago 

I've been pulled over twice. The first was nighttime in a city and my lights were off on accident, I had just pulled out of my parking lot when the officer lit up and pulled me over. He asked for my license and registration, I stuttered a bit (I was nervous, first time being pulled over and all). He asked if I'd had anything to drink. I said, "No, sir." He ran my numbers, told me my lights were out, and let me go with a warning.

The second time, there was an officer next to a stop sign standing and watching for seatbelts. I wasn't wearing one. He told me to pull over, I did, he asked why I wasn't wearing a seatbelt, I told him I had forgotten to put it on. He was stern but respectful the entire time. He gave me my ticket, and started away. I called him back, he came back and said, "Yes?" and I asked if it would put points on my license or anything. He said no. I said thanks, he left, I left with a seatbelt on.

I had one interaction where after my rearview mirror had fallen off, an officer with his lights on came flying up behind me. I started to pull over (I saw him in my side mirrors before he got very close), he drove beside me and yelled for me to use my mirrors, pretty rudely. I was annoyed at first but figured he had somewhere important to be so I figured it was reasonable to be a bit annoyed that I hadn't gotten out of the way sooner. Maybe he was just having a bad day, who knows. I'm not upset about it, even if he was pretty unnecessarily rude.

I've found generally in my interactions with them, if you remain polite and respectful, they probably won't get upset with you and make your day worse. Half of these videos where someone is being rude and short and making a big issue out of something simple like handing over your license/registration, I have little sympathy for them. I also don't do anything that really be against the law outside of speeding or not wearing a seatbelt. I think that more than likely helps with the police treating me decently.