Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

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Hey, Small Town Super Fam. How's it going? Guess what? It's your lucky day because I'm sitting here with Detective Dan. Hello. Hello, and Detective Dave. Hello. Hello. It's a very sultry. And I told you it's your lucky day because also sitting with us is the one and only Paul's. Hello.

We're all competing. Hello, never to be out done. I get more breathy. This trio never underestimate their competitiveness. So we're here to answer some of your questions and we're going to call you out by name. So, you know, don't drive off the road or anything. It's going to be great. Dave.

Theresa Montgomery, step forward. Please step into the aisle. This question is from Theresa Montgomery. And she says, hi, everyone. Why do police cars park at an angle when performing a traffic stop? And where should we put our hands as the officer approaches the car? Great question. On traffic stops. It's all about safety and anticipating future problems. When I'm setting up a traffic stop, I determine when I put on the lights because I'm trying to play.

I believe that driver is going to react to my lights and pull over in a safe place that's got plenty of room. It's well lit. Hopefully I tried not to pull people over in places where there weren't street lights. Knowing that people might have some anxiety about that. Not all cops are like that. There's other times where I just have to pull you over in a certain spot.

We're going to be able to angle our cars because we are worried, especially on highway systems. You'll see a car pulled over and you see maybe the state trooper pulled up behind them. But the state trooper has angled their car to where.

If they hit the gas, they'd pull out into the next lane of travel. So they're a little bit angled. And there's two reasons why I would do that. One is when I pull up behind the car that I just pulled over, I turn the wheel to the left or to the right, depending on which side of the road I'm on.

Because emergency lights are like flames for a moth. They are magnets. And you see dash cam frequently of police cars being rear ended. So that's why we would turn the wheels. So if the patrol car is struck from behind, it doesn't go forward into the citizens car. It goes off to the side in a different direction.

You also can't the car to give yourself a little bit of cover. At least you have a portion of the car that's blocking your approach as a police officer as you walk up to the citizens car. So you have a little bit of cover.

That's really why we do that. There's other reasons too, but the basics are all about safety. Did you say can't can't. I've never heard that use that way.

Can't it like at an angle. That's a fancy $10 wood. Yeah. So I've been pulled over since I became a police officer. I always put my hands on the top of the steering wheel.

Ten and two. Also, if it's nighttime, I would turn on my dome light. It lets the officer know that you the citizen are conscious of what anxiety the police officer might be feeling as you approach the car.

If you have 10 windows in the back seat, roll down the window so the police officer can look and see that there's nobody on the other side of that window if they're so dark that you can't see inside.

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