My daddy told me to always treat people the way I'd want them to treat me.
Try that being a Cop sometime. It can be done if you have some patience, and can convince them you are trying to help them.
Had several show up at my retirement roasting, that said the way I treated them during an arrest, was what kept them out of be incarcerated in later years.
And that is the difference between a "GOOD COP" and an "ANUS" with a BADGE.
Sounds like you were one of the good ones RJ, but then we already knew that.