You're patrolling one night and you roll up to a stop light. You notice a seemingly shady looking car that has some sort of infraction (burned out tail light, expired plate etc. (use your imagination)). As you're taking note of the problem, you also notice a decal on the window for a local street gang, notorious for being violent and rough. This vehicle or person/persons hasn't done anything terribly wrong that you can tell, yet you want to make the stop. At the same time you fear the unknown. How many people are in the car? Are they armed? Are you gonna get peppered as you're approaching the vehicle? This may be a no brainer scenario. Maybe I just haven't watched enough "COPS" episodes
, but what do you do? Do you stop them, then wait in the car for back up? Do you handle it on your own, taking the risk?


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