I know it's difficult to say about do you trust or not trust to cops. I have few friends who involved in police forces. I have one friend, a police officer who married to deaf woman. Also, our company work with police forces. Hearing from their personal experience is very very difficult and stressful job. Try to imagine yourself of having many people come to you (just you out of 100 people each day) spewing at you, cussing at you, lying at you, bloodie HIV positive person, pushed and shove at you, and many more that you can imagine every day. Can you handle it? Can you smile every day? It take a big toll on you mentally. Secondly, try to imagine yourself with little number of police officers taking calls from 1000 people each day. It's stressful... It's a nerve wacking decision making of to shoot or not to shoot. After having a stressful time, if one police officer holding gun at him ordered a person to follow what he say, if he refused, police officer will suddenly sweat profusly, fear increased, getting tired of hearing refusing police orders, then..... bang. He just simply couldn't handle it because of his one small false move and shot him.
It's not an easy job.
I never had a problem with any of the police officers, I got pulled over because I didn't make a complete stop at a stop sign. So, I quickly pulled out my Driver license, registration, insurance. The the police officer came to my side, I quickly tell him I'm deaf and told him that I'm sure he need my driver license, insurance and registration. Then I explained to him that I believe I didn't make a complete stop at the stop sign. Police gave a thumb up meaning "yes". I told him "Yes I didn't make a complete stop". So, he went back to his car and few minutes later, he came to me and gave me a warning ticket. I told him thanks. Just before he was leaving, I called out to him and said, "You have a safe day". Officer looked at me, with a big smile and gave a double thumbs up and saying "Thanks".
You know this story above, it make his work lot easier just by simply telling him a truth and make his work faster because he got lot of boat load in front of him. Now, if I do everything completely opposite, like cussing at him or saying "Now WHAT I DID WRONG!!!!" and all other bullshit, the officer feeling will turned to nasty and getting fed up. It's hard to control his feeling... now think about it what I said above, of having someone spit at you everyday... can you handle it? Nah....
Cops are trying to be good cops..but can lead to bad cops.
ADDED: Oh one more thing.. for any deaf people, please don't act an idiot. Just help him/her and cooperate with him/her. That will make his/her job lot easier and surely he/she will feel appreaciated. You know from hearing some of the police officers experience and they asked me about how to handle deaf people. Just follow what he/she want and do it. Remember he/she had a stressful day and don't want to add another problems.