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Concern for Officer Safety is reduced, considerably, by the following:
When you see you are being pulled over, these things provide your protection, as well as showing the Officer your awareness!
First: have at ~least~ your license out, if not registration, insurance papers.
Second: Lock your door, roll your window down enough for speaking, and paper exchange if needed.
Third: turn vehicle OFF.
Fourth: PLACE both of your hands, on TOP of your Steering Wheel (around the wheel, like driving), and KEEP them THERE, until you are asked to move, to say hand out your license out, then say "my license is on the dash, i will get it now",etc.
That last part shows them you are not doing something they did not ask of YOU!!!
That your hands are fully visable is an imediate (internal) sigh of relief for ANY LEO !!!!
It is when they can not see BOTH of your HANDS, that concern for their safety escalates, our job, yes, it is a "job" is to present ourselves as No Threat, not a SHEEP, just not a threat.
When the sticky questions come, may I Search, etc. you can then reply as needed, knowing you have already been compliant, without THEIR REQUEST, and that Does Help.
AT NIGHT, for YOUR safety, and Theirs, turn on your overhead lights inside your car (dome lights or more). This provides YOUR eyes, time to adjust to brighter lights, and ~If~ the law man flashes his flash light in your eyes, you will have better responding time to return to night vision, by having the extra "dull" lights for vision.
Of course, all of above, is based upon your being completely legal in your car...
A while back, I was driving in the rain, I hit a patch of rain slicked mud, and it was a single car incident. My car was totaled, and just before the wrecker was going to do the pull, I said "Officer, I do have One Request of you, for assistance". He asked what... I stated that I had some guns in the car, and needed assistance in transfering them to the car (my family) picking me up to go home.
He said no problem, I unlocked the glove box, took out two hand guns, my regular carry. From the back of the car, a recently purchased long gun... And then another long gun, just back from my gunsmith. At NO TIME, was the officer overly concerned, or questioned me as to FOUR Weapons? Nothing.... We had already developed a good relationship, by my following the above concepts, that I regularly have Practised, over the last 20+ years or so... And no, there have NOT been very many Stops.... But When... Then I do as above.
In fact, I drove away from a ticket, in Beaverton, by just doing as above, and when asked, "what gives"? I simply said I was new to the area, and lost, AND, without Skipping a beat, I also asked how to get where I wanted to GO!!
The officer could have given me a from yellow to red ticket, it was the last second of yellow, braking would have left me in the "wrong area", so I goosed the gas pedal. Instead, he got to feel good, helping a lost traveler, in his City...
Relationships, all of them, are a Two Party Concept, you can only do your part, but that often provides interest,in the other person doing theirs....
philip,
In the boondocks, we say howdy, and even leave OFF the "stranger" part !!!!
When you see you are being pulled over, these things provide your protection, as well as showing the Officer your awareness!
First: have at ~least~ your license out, if not registration, insurance papers.
Second: Lock your door, roll your window down enough for speaking, and paper exchange if needed.
Third: turn vehicle OFF.
Fourth: PLACE both of your hands, on TOP of your Steering Wheel (around the wheel, like driving), and KEEP them THERE, until you are asked to move, to say hand out your license out, then say "my license is on the dash, i will get it now",etc.
That last part shows them you are not doing something they did not ask of YOU!!!
That your hands are fully visable is an imediate (internal) sigh of relief for ANY LEO !!!!
It is when they can not see BOTH of your HANDS, that concern for their safety escalates, our job, yes, it is a "job" is to present ourselves as No Threat, not a SHEEP, just not a threat.
When the sticky questions come, may I Search, etc. you can then reply as needed, knowing you have already been compliant, without THEIR REQUEST, and that Does Help.
AT NIGHT, for YOUR safety, and Theirs, turn on your overhead lights inside your car (dome lights or more). This provides YOUR eyes, time to adjust to brighter lights, and ~If~ the law man flashes his flash light in your eyes, you will have better responding time to return to night vision, by having the extra "dull" lights for vision.
Of course, all of above, is based upon your being completely legal in your car...
A while back, I was driving in the rain, I hit a patch of rain slicked mud, and it was a single car incident. My car was totaled, and just before the wrecker was going to do the pull, I said "Officer, I do have One Request of you, for assistance". He asked what... I stated that I had some guns in the car, and needed assistance in transfering them to the car (my family) picking me up to go home.
He said no problem, I unlocked the glove box, took out two hand guns, my regular carry. From the back of the car, a recently purchased long gun... And then another long gun, just back from my gunsmith. At NO TIME, was the officer overly concerned, or questioned me as to FOUR Weapons? Nothing.... We had already developed a good relationship, by my following the above concepts, that I regularly have Practised, over the last 20+ years or so... And no, there have NOT been very many Stops.... But When... Then I do as above.
In fact, I drove away from a ticket, in Beaverton, by just doing as above, and when asked, "what gives"? I simply said I was new to the area, and lost, AND, without Skipping a beat, I also asked how to get where I wanted to GO!!
The officer could have given me a from yellow to red ticket, it was the last second of yellow, braking would have left me in the "wrong area", so I goosed the gas pedal. Instead, he got to feel good, helping a lost traveler, in his City...
Relationships, all of them, are a Two Party Concept, you can only do your part, but that often provides interest,in the other person doing theirs....
philip,
In the boondocks, we say howdy, and even leave OFF the "stranger" part !!!!
