Events written happened yesterday.
So it's my second day in this state. I'm driving down the interstate on my way to my first day on the job. Speed limit, as is normal for interstate's, 70 MPH. I turn on the cruise control, set the cruise somewhere between 70-72 MPH (you can only get so accurate without a digital readout on the dash). I see a sign coming up ahead: Work Zone Ahead, $250 Minimum Fine, Speed Limit 60 MPH. Okay. I can do that. Set cruise control to somewhere in the area of 60-62 MPH. It seems like I am flying by everyone else on the road. I think that's quite odd, but hey, I'm only doing what the signs say. I can't control what the other people do or don't do on the road. As I'm driving in the middle lane of my side of this six lane highway, I pass a County Sheriff sitting in the median. I am not bothered by this, as I am going the speed limit +/- 1 or 2 MPH. So I keep driving, pass another police cruiser (unmarked) sitting in the median. Again, not worried. About a mile down the road, one more cruiser. Really? Three of them in just under 3 miles? Isn't that a little bit excessive? Oh well, if that's how they want to conduct business, whatever. About a mile down the road, I happen to look in the rearview mirror, and see the first cruiser I passed coming flying up in the lane to my left (the "fast lane") and think, oh man, he must've gotten someone or something. Then he gets up to about my rear fender and slows down to match my speed.
Now, it doesn't take an expert to know that with the distance between myself and when I passed him in the median, with him being at a dead stop, he had to be bookin' to catch up to me. Anyways, as I said, he started matching my speed. I happen to glance in my side mirror and see there are two officers in the car, the one in the passenger seat busy typing away, what I can only assume is my vehicles info (Indiana tag), into the laptop. We ride like this with them at my rear fender for about 5-6 miles. After about the third mile I started to get just more than a little bit annoyed with this, but I kept my speed constant and just tried my best to ignore them. Finally when they got all the info back saying that I am not a criminal and that I don't have any warrants out for me, they sped up and flew by me (still in the 60 MPH work zone). It's like they were trying to find something to pull me over for.
This is why people have problems with the police force. They are supposed to be there to serve and protect (I know this is technically not the mottoe of all PDs, just making a generalization), and there are plenty out there that do that. I know quite a few even. But instead of serving and protecting, it seems like a lot of them out there are out to frighten and harass. However, because of this, the way the public views the police force is negative because of the individuals that act in that way. Now, I can understand, if I was swerving, or on the cell phone, or speeding excessively... but I wasn't doing any of that. I was literally going the speed limit. But because I have an out-of-state tag on my vehicle, I got chosen to be 'randomly screened' without any sort of probable cause. Now, maybe there is another car out there that they are looking for and my car matches that description down to the Indiana tag... but I doubt it, especially at 7AM. On a Monday morning.
Again, not saying that all police officers are like this or even that all police officers do this. Just saying that if you want more people to respect you and what you do, get your brothers and sisters on the force to stop acting this way.
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