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when I was high school age in Philly, this sort of thing happened to me all the time. I never went two weekends without getting pulled over at least once in my sky blue '73 Bel Air. The car wasn't nice or showy. I wasn't doing anything wrong at the time. But i was young and in certain neighborhoods at certain times, the police felt it appropriate to pull over young people, make sure everything was legit and that they were aware of the police presence. I only ever had one officer be rude during the stop, and I had more than quite a few be more than polite, they were downright friendly. I never thought this was weird, I just always thought of it as officers doing their jobs and the policy was meant to keep neighborhoods safe (including my own) and kids out of trouble (including me). I dunno, was I weird for thinking that way? Or does the OP just have a strange way of looking at this?
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