What is the best experience you have had with a police officer?

My wife and I had taken a four year old foster son who had just been placed with us to McDonald's for dinner.  A policeman walked in and the 4 year old became visibly agitated and even said "I need to hide so the cops don't see me,"

 Understand that to his biological parents seeing the police was a common but not usually a pleasant experience.

He was not really buying our explanation that the police are our friends and so I went over and explained the situation to the officer and asked would he mind just coming over and introducing himself to our 4 year old so he could see that policemen were not bad.  Not only did he come over to our table, but he proceeded to take 20 minutes out of his 30 minute dinner break to sit and visit with our foster son and engage him in conversation, let him talk on his radio and see his badge and all his police equipment.

It didn't solve all the problems that an abused 4 year old has, but that effort completely changed his perception that the police were the bad guys.

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