# How does "professional courtesy" work with cops

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 9, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-professional-courtesy-work-with-cops/368032 "2006-08-09T18:00:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-professional-courtesy-work-with-cops/368032/50 "2006-08-11T19:33:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Turek]  
If you’re not expecting special favors, why show your badge at all?  
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Even Police Officers are nervous some times. When he sees my ID, he can relax. A nervous man with a gun is not a good thing.

Besides, I am sometimes in odd areas doing odd things. If me acting suspicious is part of why he pulled me over (and this would simply be good police work), then he now know what I was doing and why.

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