Many ( or some) years ago , when i worked lauderdale, i wore a beard.I would get pulled by the cops at least twice a week. Finaly, a TAC officer explained it to me. Even though i worked for them, patrol officer only remembered that they'd seen me before, thus they must have arrested me before, or I was a gangster, or some damn thing. So, pull. It didn't matter that I'd worked a job with that same guy a few days prior, or that he'd seen me wandering the corridors of their cop-shop for weeks, did'nt matter. It was the Beard~! Cop-think is that ( at least patrol division) if you wear a beard, that is a sign of an aggressive male. Probably criminal. Git 'im up, boy!
From their point of view, reasonable, and probably statistcally bears out. From my point of view, as a free man, it's tiresome as hell. I'm clean-shaven these days, I don't mind that much, I can grow another within 9 days.
Ever yours in Insurrection, J.O.M