----- Original Message ----- From: "E.R.N. Reed"
Subject: Re: Today I Was Stopped by the Police While Photographing
Odds are that any pizza delivery guy isn't dangerous, or a pervert, or a dangerous pervert. A small chance exists that he is. (And IF he is ... insert my "dangerous pervert" remarks here. They don't apply to the vast majority of harmless, law-abiding citizens, even the ones who deliver pizza and attend football games.) Odds are any guy pulled over for a missing licence plate isn't a mass murderer. But at least one was. Odds are any quiet fellow who keeps his apartment so messy it smells bad, isn't a serial killer and cannibal. But at least one was. Odds are any strangely-dressed characters walking down the street don't have a kidnapped teen girl in their group. But at least one did. Are you going to disbelieve that these situations actually occurred, just because they're rare?
It sounds as though you prepared to arrest every one of them on the offchance that they are.
William Robb
