That is actually sound advice. Should be sticky in Mining

Sadly, botched raids happen all the time. I think part of the problem comes from an over abundance of SWAT teams and a relative dearth of appropriate scenarios for them. And laziness. Why bother with good police work when law enforcement can just surprise suspects with overwhelming force and just troll for evidence of criminal activity?

Damage control and basic psychology, buddy.  If you treat cops like human beings, they're vastly more likely to treat you like a human being.  If you open the door with a fuck the pigs attitude, they're vastly much more likely to think, "well, fuck you, too".  You must understand that drug raids frequently see armed combat, and everyone on those teams is surging with adrenaline when they knock on (or kick down) your door.  Being non-confrontational and cooperative puts everyone at ease.  It may even save your Corgi, if the dog follows your lead, as dogs have been doing with their masters for thousands of years.

There will always be bad apples, of course, so your results may vary.

As for keeping shit clean - a team of men in boots, be they workmen or swatties in riot gear, are going to trample anything you let them.  They do almost as much damage as kids!

Those are just bad apples, you can't lump all cops in with them!

edit... You were too quick, was looking for this link.

Well, that place police officers in a row with fast food servants - don`t be harsh with them, and they will not spit in your food - cool. Low and order in rise of their hopes. Actually - i  am was always think like that. That adds great deal of honor to PO`s

Hmm... I am suggest they will spit in my food ...
Hope they did not will know that i m said this, at least fast food workers.

Okay.  Yell at the police and carry on until they resort to their usual brutality, then.  Congratulations, you just got beaten senseless and accomplished absolutely nothing.  Good work.

My post was about damage control.  I have never once implied that I approve in any way of the depraved, legitimized gang violence that goes on so often in our country.  If you guys want to fuck the popo so much, suicide bomb your local police station.  Jesus.

Right!  Because the man with the gun in his hands, while he can shoot you, he won't necessarily get away with it.  The policeman will definitely get away with it.  Legitimized gang violence.  Same way here, too, although they aren't nearly as openly brutal, or so I've been told. 

There are still many good men and women who are officers in my country.  That doesn't excuse the rampant corruption, but they're there, and they are people, struggling to do good when there is so much pressure to do wrong, and you those of you in this thread who live in america and have forgotten this, would do well to remember it.

Anyway, I've been thinking that I haven't been communicating myself effectively.  The system of law that america groans under has gone incredibly foul, and the weight gets more and more oppressive with each passing year.  I agree that we're sliding into something really bad.  I just don't see any possible gains from individualized defiance with such a, well, this is going to sound insulting, but with such a flagrantly teenage theme to it.  It would take nothing short of a massive revolution, be that armed and violent, or (hopefully) peaceable and with the means overwhelming public demonstration and legal weight to compel change. 

There just aren't enough of us willing to throw rocks at the bee's nest yet, to make any rocks thrown likely to accomplish anything but anger and pain.