This news article is a great read! I think we have lots to learn from experienced police officers, and the way their intuition works.
Bottom line: If something 'doesn't look right', 'doesn't sound right', or 'looks suspicious', there's a high probability that something is going on.
Story:
When Warren Jeffs, one of the members of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List was captured this last week, most of the story was focused on his religious sect, an unauthorized spin-off of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
What got less notice was that Jeffs was located, identified, and captured not by the estimable Federal Bureau of Investigation, but rather by a Mark I model of the World's Most Effective Crime Suppression Device: a uniformed patrol officer.
Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Eddie Dutchover stopped Jeffs' Cadillac Escalade for having a paper license plate that didn't look right. Jeffs was sitting in the back seat of the SUV, eating a salad.
Dutchover's cop radar went off when Jeffs wouldn't make eye contact with him. When the trooper was told that the folks in the Cadillac had just spent a single night in Vegas, it occurred to him that they were carrying a lot of luggage for an overnighter. Dutchover started asking questions and collecting IDs. The rest is history.
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