Foot,

Never had a problem with cops growing up.
Then again, at the time...Newark cops.....real cops...were dealing with decaying city with real violence problems. They were trained well enough and had enough experience to do the eye test and tell my friends and I weren't trouble makers.


First bad encounter with police was when I went away to school and every few years or so ever since.

I view my run ins as a combination of things. One, cops not as well trained or as busy and finding excuses to stop me, assuming that they will find something that I am guilty of(and getting angry when everything checks out) and I guess I was not supposed to leave the reservation(Newark) and live and move around freely like others.