When we used to gather at 4 Corners, in the early morning, we'd play a little game. We'd watch the North bound and South bound cars and see if anything about them made us suspicious. The way the driver looked or wouldn't look at us. Was he driving too slow. How'd was the car riding. Too low on the springs, indicating he might have a load of stolen goods in the trunk.
Some of us, like Byron Tomlinson, were experts at this game. Byron said the hair would stand up on his neck when there was something that wasn't righteous about the vehicle or driver. And a great majority of the time he was right.
We were trying to develop "cop's intuition", an extra sense that allows you to quickly survey a situation and just know that something is wrong. All good cops develop this skill. It saves their lives. And others.
I'm glad my days on the job are over. I wouldn't be allowed to use that skill today. It's called profiling, and in our suicidal politically correct world it's supposed to be a bad thing.
I just hope the cops, and the folks at the airports, use it anyway and lie about how they knew they had an A-hole on their hands.
We always did.
Trouble is, to be politically correct, they have to waste time checking grandma when they know they should be concentrating on young, middle-East males. Got to be politically correct. It's time we drop all that crap. Concentrate on the suspect group and if they don't like it, let 'em travel by camel next time.
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