[Augie]

The popo is not your friend.

[brent13a]

The popo is not your friend.

That's correct; just like the saying that parents should never strive to be their children's friend.

Why should the police be 'friends' with anyone? Police should be friendly at the correct times, but they should never be anyone's 'friend'.

Half the time police are spending that time being surrogate parents to grown adult children and their children anyway (aside from the time police spend doing steroids and dealing meth out of their trunks of course).

When police start being friends to people on a one-on-one basis you get stupid problems all around. Just like the justice system isn't your friend....it's supposed to be adversarial by design....law enforcement is part of that adversarial justice system.

[Valin]

Remember that if you ever find yourself in trouble.