The min you choose NOT to follow their instructions puts them in a defensive mode immediately and you're probably not going to like the outcome. It's just the way they trained, wired or programmed.
Hawkeye, I like and respect you as a poster and agree with you much of the time, but I’m afraid on this topic you may be a bit naive.
You have it completely backwards
The police don’t go into
“defensive mode”
Quite the the opposite.
The hundreds of hours of training you mentioned focuses on
“aggressive mode”.
There are actual terms for it
- “Situational Dominance”
- “Aggressive Policing Command Presence”
- “Aggressive Order Maintenance”
Google any of those phrases.
Culturally, it’s know as “
coercive enforcement”, which is how police rely on an implied or direct threat of physical force, jail, arrests, searches, tows, etc, to compel compliance from the public.
It’s good that you don’t know about this. It means you,your family and friends have been blessed, or maybe the subject jsut never caught your interest. It’s not pretty.
De-escalation training for the police is handled the same way as sensitivity training is handled in the corporate world. The lawyers require it, not management and it’s done to win court cases, not to healthy behavior.