With reference to Al's last comment:- ""If a cop talks to you as though   you might be a threat - its probably cos he's met someone like you that was a threat."".

If you doubt the veracity of that statement, you should really have a chat with my cousin Phil, and have a good look at the eighteen inch scar across his torso, put there by the five foot two inch girlfriend of a man he was arresting for assaulting her.

Don T