I love Rochester city cops... like the time my band smoked a joint on the side of a parking garage downtown and walked around the corner to 4 cops standing there laughing at us (whoops! good sense of humor, though, officers!) Or the time I was dead broke and let my car insurance lapse, which caused my NYS DMV registration to get revoked, and I got pulled over for a burned out headlight on the way back from a party. Good thing it was in a bad neighborhood, the cop says "son, you want to tell me why you have no insurance?" When I explained I was dead broke and that was also the reason they suspended my registration he says "well, just get the hell out of here and fix up your problems".
Sometimes I like living in a high-crime city. LOL!
t, does your tagline mean that you are a MC5 fan? (kick out the jams)
In the collar communities of Chicago, the cops can be pretty cool, too. I was pulled over one time in Naperville, found out I had a procedural license suspension (an unpaid NY state ticket), and the cop said, "Clear it up. I'll check next time I see you around."
In Atlanta, I would have been dragged from my car, swallowed some pavement, been booked and thrown in jail, and my car would have been impounded.