Cue people who will say that you're "being an asshole" or that you should expect bad treatment because of the formal way that you have chosen to address the cop.
Cops will hate hearing what you've written here, and it'll probably single you out for additional scrutiny and rights-violations.
It sets the tone, when it doesn't have to be that way. Suppose the officer pulled you over to tell you your tail light is out. (Has happened to me). Friendly enough. Then you roll down your window and recite a two minute speech about your lawyer and Miranda. You have just communicated to the officer exactly what you think of him, how you have zero faith in him, and how uncooperative you plan to be. How would that NOT sour the interaction?
You assume every time you are pulled over, the officer is salivating at the thought of cuffing you.
Anecdotally, the area has some bearing on cop behavior, but as always YMMY. Typically, I've seen major city cops & speed trap cops are generally efficient. They will issue a citation, or provide a verbal warning and send the individual on their way.
Cops in rural areas with very little to do and very little oversight from say fellow state troopers tend to sour and abuse their power in ways the uneducated would have no idea that their rights were being trampled on.
Even when people know, if there's no consequence (e.g. got illegally searched, but nothing was found), people tend to not bother with obtaining justice against these behaviors as the time and money involved to complain, sue, etc brings very little reward for the effort involved. So we have a feedback loop where cops can abuse their power and nothing of consequence ever really comes about.
If the power abuse yields are juicy find such as alcohol, drugs or any illegal product, people will tend to be more preoccupied with getting charged, that they also have little wherewithal to attempt to seek justice for the given officer's actions. Thus we have another feedback loop that positively reinforces abusive behavior. Trample on someone's right and make them a felon, then get a pat on the back for taking said felon off the streets.
> Suppose the officer pulled you over to tell you your tail light is out.
A cop doesn't pull you over to tell you your tail light is out. They pull you over because a broken tail-light is sufficient cause to stop you, hoping that the traffic stop leads to something more than a verbal warning.
Exactly! In Texas, Austin County, back in 2005 I got pulled over for no front license plate. I was passing through on my way to Austin (which is not in Austin county). In Austin lots of people do not have front plates and it was never an issue so I didn't think anything about it. The ticket for the violation had a list of fines, 'no front plate' was the only item listed as "warning" instead of a dollar value. The only reason they did this was to pull you over and look for paper violations, it was so obvious since there was no monetary value associated with the missing plate.
Even if it's for a minor offense like a broken tail light,maths officer is the one initiating the situation. The officer is detaining you with a clear threat of violence (imagine what would happen if you refuse to pull over, even for just a broken tail light). As such, I wouldn't be hesitant or remorseful to cause some minor inconvenience to the officer by announcing my intention to exercise my rights.
> Then you roll down your window and recite a two minute speech about your lawyer and Miranda.
As the OP said (45 minutes before you made your comment) [0] this "speech" is printed on a card, which he hands to the officer, while informing the officer that he is exercising his right to remain silent.
Cops will hate hearing what you've written here, and it'll probably single you out for additional scrutiny and rights-violations.
It's pretty bad that things have come to this.