Bandon Rains

  End of January 2022 4 years in Bandon.   Police encounters In the 20 years I lived in the SF bay area and raised my kids, I had multiple encounters with the police down there.   In most of them it was to receive a traffic citation, and in most of them the policeman would talk down to me as if I was wasting his time, hand me the ticket and walk away.     On rare occasions I would encounter a policeman who was polite to me and treated me like a person. On one or two other occasions,  it would be because there was a disturbance on our street.    Even then police at most don't really get out of their car to talk to you.   You might get them to crack open their window and ask you  some questions.    Rightly or wrongly, they keep their distance from you. Bandon encounters have been mostly non traffic related, and mostly I think because I am a single guy living alone, or walking alone.    Like most things with guys, if you are with a woman or a dog or a baby, you are seen differently.