Easy. Refrain from doing stupid shit in front of a cop.
There are cops that will pull up to you while you are walking, and start asking questions. Some times they even get out of the car and pat you down. I witnessed my buddy who is a heroin addict, who has been clean for 4 years and some odd months now. Me, my girlfriend and my buddy were walking to the local deli. Right before we were about to enter the deli, my girlfriends phone rings. So we stop, she answers and we decided to stay outside while she took the call from her son who was up in Erie visiting family. So there is this little wall right next to the deli, all three of us sat on it while she was talking to her son. There were about 3 maybe 4 cop cars driving and circling around. We didn't pay no mind to them, because we were walking to get some cigarettes.
We didn't have anything illegal on us at all. My buddy who is a heroin addict didn't have a thing on him. I had my wallet, phone, and about 7 bucks and some loose change for a pack of smokes, my girlfriend didn't have pockets because she was wearing yoga pants. Not one of us had an encounter with any of the police officers that ended up showing up. The one cop stopped at the stop sign and started to speak to us. We couldn't hear so we went up closer to his car. Started asking the usual questions what is your name, where do you live, where are you going, what are you doing, ect ect ect. After the questions he asked to see our arms, I knew he was looking for track marks. I didn't have anything to hide so with out hesitation I showed him mine. I knew my buddy has some nasty looking track marks and knew the officer was going to do something. My buddy shows him and the officer said "do you guys have anything on you?' We replied "no sir not at all, you can search us and everything!." He said " I am, I was going to all ready". Gets out searched us, found not 1 illegal thing.
We told him our story and that we were only sitting here so that my girlfriend could speak to her son. We just went for a walk to get smokes. Of course the officers didn't believe us. The cop said "who you guys meeting here?" "who you coping(buying) drugs off of?" "There were about 20+ black people walking around and we were the only 3 white people so they automatically assumed we were there to buy drugs. I made a smart comment because all this was unnecessary, I said yea, "you really think we are coping with only 7 dollars and 75 cents and 3 of the dollars was quarters?" Of course he got mad because we do not have freedom of speech when it comes to speaking to him. We live in this neighborhood and it mixed race. I don't think its right for him to automatically assume we were buying drugs because we were sitting there so my girl could talk to her son, but to them we looked like 3 junkies trying to cop off one of the 20 something black people walking around. I over heard the other officers speaking and that is what the pretty much said. And since somebody got shot outside the smoke shop few days before, when I told him we are buying cigarettes he said "yea right someone just got shot there the other day, your going to cop" Like they don't make any kind of sense to me anymore.