How to Use Siri I'm Getting Pulled over to Record Police

The "..."you're obstructing a police matter," which is ... not correct. " Is a pointless generalized statement that is therefore false.

Bystanders especially groups and yelling people pose a significant risk to the police and others involved. If you can't see why they would not let people come close to take the perfect tiktok video you just ignore the reality of police work. They are trained to assure the situation is as safe as possible for everyone involved and keep uninvolved out. Not to provide the best recording angle for bystanders. If you serious think they want people at a distance so they can commit crimes and the evidence videos will be from too far away, then you are delusional and completely out of touch with reality. Its absurdly stupid argument especially if you take into account that almost all cop interactions do not have recording form bystanders so there plenty opportunity for bad cops to do bad.

Cops are taught to shoot center of mass of a person basically until they stop moving. They are expected to do this and are judged according to that expectation.

Police is killing people because that's exactly what you expect of the police whenever policeman feels he's threatened.

In USA of course, not in many other first world countries.

That link says 40% say they own a gun. Regardless, you want to ask how many people who are pulled over have guns in their car. Potentially it is higher because they were (in most cases) speeding, driving illegally, or license plate is connected to previous crimes.

Then you should ask, if 10% of traffic stops result in guns being found what effect does that on police officers. What if it is 25%? 50%?

I’m not saying it’s one way or another, but refuting your claim that it is certainly less than 50%, and suggesting that even if it is it has an effect on the officer.

I’m not sure what the solution is here, past holding cops who harm innocent people accountable.. but that doesn’t address the lack of safety the officer faces.

In LA, there used to be (still are?) news items on the 'Helicoptor following the chase' which, as a Canadian, was dumbfounding to me.

Youtube vides of 2 police arresting a man, 4 hands on him, they're putting on the cuffs and them bam he goes for his gun (!!!) - literally right has 2 officers have him under control, the assailant tries to kill the cops.

Traffic cops have people 'take off' on them far too often.

So combine this with the very real availability of guns, and you have quite dangerous situations.

Again, I would repeat that the cops are still overzealous, but unless you're antagonizing you have little to worry about other than maybe a cop in a bad mood.

It's not populist for people to have to deal with the fact that Americans themselves are statistically poorly behaved when confronting cops.

Americans often see a funny bit of behaviour on the news and think 'Oh, that's so Florida' - but for people outside the US the entire country looks like 'Florida'.