Police stops gone wrong. Recent example of the GB athlete. They said they have been stopped a couple of times by different officers. This stopping has clearly for them changed how they feel and react each time. They’ve escalated in their response no doubt due to (contd)

Frustration. Annoyance that they’ve done no wrong and know they haven’t. That their child is in the car. This has layered and layered and to them subjectively their behaviour and actions are reasonable and the acts of the officers unreasonable as they see the officers

As a group. One officer is all officers. So when stopped it’s why are they ( collective for all cops) stopping us again. We be been through this. The person being stopped doesn’t take into account the officers subjective experience has only just started with them ( contd)

And the officers are basing their actions as a blank sheet on the actions of the person being stopped. That person subjectively is further down what they view as a shared experience and as such will react in that way. It’s that gap that sometimes leads to it getting messy (contd)

Somehow both sides have to take that into account. To bridge that gap with how they approach. I admit the majority of the work has to come from the police who hold the power but the person stopped also has to think objectively about why things happened as well. It’s no one way.