I don't have any delusions that I'll teach a cop (or a mugger even) some lesson by baring arrogance or attitude. (I ain't no bitch, but) I can tell that it's not almost never worth it.

And I don't know a single cop's name. My stories with the police are run-of-the-mill drunk dumb-ass behavior. Once tried to convince a squad of 6 officers not to shut down a several hundred person party on a farm in southern Maryland because I was a cadet in training with an "Officer Johnson" from Baltimore. Lord, how in the fuck I wasn't arrested just for being that stupid is beyond me. slow-whistle for some of the near misses I've had.

I remember an episode from comedian Bill Burr's podcast about how much he's grown since his early twenty and teenage years. He remembers an age when he wouldn't've backed down from anything, not a cop or a loud mouth at a bar, he would've fisticuffed at the drop of the hat (this is how I'm remembering it). But now that he's older, he imagines that if he were at a bar, and some guy was being a total maniac and trying to start something, he would just leave. You never know, what if that guy just murdered his wife and a cop and booked it across state lines and he's stopping for a drink to calm his nerves and you're just the next dude in his way and anything could make him snap. You never know. It's better to default to caution, picking your battles is the sure sign of a wise man.