Traffic stop; LEO asks you, 'do you have any guns in the car'

[dcmdon]

Back in the day, Officer Friendly walked the beat, and interacted face-to-face with people without asking for papers; now, John Law drives around in a cruiser, windows up (yes, I like AC too, but I'm making a point); wearing armor and more belt equipment than Batman. And, it seems that on the drop of a dime, the SWAT unit is called out, with the APC (as was noted in another thread, a LEO said it "Had that new tank smell").

My point? There is more anti-police-state sentiment than anti individual cop. All of the one-on-one ineractions that I've had with the Framingham PD has been fine (I'm a good boy). A couple I've met in non-official capacities, and they seemed like regular guys. But I truly gotta say, that when I saw a pair of black SWAT-wagons tooling down Concord St. a couple of months back, I was ....disturbed.

Very nicely said.