Today's Video Link

YouTube is filled with videos of folks having unpleasant — for at least one side — encounters with police officers or other enforcers of laws. In many cases, the person who had the encounter recorded it on video — or even live-streamed it to YouTube — to document something that they thought at the moment was tyranny or police misbehavior of some sort. You have a lot of people who can cite mythical Supreme Court decisions that, they say, prove you don't need a driver's license, registration and/or insurance to drive.

There are times when the officers are wholly or partly in the wrong but there sure are plenty where the person caught speeding, driving drunk or lacking a license and other legal requirements look like arrogant/ignorant babies. And a lesson to be learned from all of these online videos is that if you're stopped by the cops, being belligerent and confrontational will only make things worse for you…even if you're in the right.

You may also learn that a lot of "law" people learn on the Internet is spectacularly wrong and that some of them will never believe that.

The Sheriff's office in Pinal County, Arizona has a deputy named Frank Sloup who, at least in the videos they post online, seems to be very good at his job. He's smart, polite, occasionally funny and real good at de-escalating a confrontation with an outraged driver who he stopped for doing 71 where the posted speed limit is 45 MPH.

They post "Fridays with Frank" videos almost every week and I would guess the main premise here is to show motorists that the guy who stops you is just doing his job and there's no reason or gain in being a dick about it. But I think they're also showing police officers and deputies everywhere that you can do that job without being a dick about it. Here's the latest of those videos and there are many more where this one came from…