Surviving a Police Encounter

Sometimes satire is the only way to give voice to immense frustration and anger about something that has happened. The Onion did it well with its article about the Department of Justice deploying smartphone-carrying bystanders to the nation’s streets. I think the above image does an admirable job too. Because let’s face it, if you can take an infographic about bears and substitute “police,” and it makes sense, there’s a serious problem.

For a non-satirical approach to the topic, see this SALT Project video with ten rules to getting home safely:

The image at the top comes from Christopher Keelty; HT PZ Myers.