My experience with the police is that they like spending far too much of their time annoying the public who are doing basically nothing wrong except maybe violating some tiny by-law or such.
I have had two runs in with the police recently (both for acts which did not break any law nor did they harm anyone else). A recent one was where I was leaving a friends house at night (I think it was about 12:30) and I couldn't figure out how to open his gate. His fence was only about up to my waist, so I decided just to jump over it instead. To my great misfortune, a police car was going by, and instead of just going up to the doorbell and ringing it and solving the problem, he thought he would take down all of my details and phone up their central office or whatever it is to see if I had a record (which of course I did not).
By the way, I have also learned that you should never say "Don't you have a murder to solve?" to a police officer. It just makes them become angry and go on a power trip (as if they weren't already on one) as well as keeping you waiting for another 5-10 minutes.
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