Mostly mind my own business, but expect to have to record and report a domestic abuse.

Nothing. Not even talk to them. Being cordially distant.

I lived a couple houses down from a cop.

His whole family were dickish Karen types and got the annual block party shut down. Their house was regularly egged and TPd until they moved. I may or may not have been involved in some of those eggings.

Most people can't afford to just "move".

Just ignore them? I already ignore my neighbours that aren't pricks, ignoring a prick is no different

Get them really drunk than feed them drugs while you record it for a get out of jail free card.

Cops can be fine, many of them want to do good. But law enforcement also attracts/breeds a certain type of thumbhead person that either loves or hates you.

We had cops for neighbours at one place and one down the street in another. Both great people. Used to get together with them, kids played together, etc.

My general rule for cops is to keep my head down. They have no particular reason to bother me, but they're also a certain kind of person. (Inevitably, because the job is awful and nobody else can handle it long-term)

Cop lives somewhere down the street.

I ignore him.

But I also have talked to the neighbors on purpose like. Twice. In almost twenty years lol.

Not really pay attention to them at all. Can't be arsed to care, unless they start waving that gun.

My grandmother lived next to cop. You don't want to live next to a cop. They think they're the authority over EVERYTHING. He built his fence three feet into her yard. What an asshole, thinking he'd run over a 90 year old lady. We forced him to move it.

There was a cop in the neighbor right outside ours ( you have to drive through that neighborhood to get to ours), I thought having him there would curb some of the drug activity, I was wrong. It was obvious pretty early on he was dirty.

Depends on the situation. But generally agree with the top comment.

Recently a cop help me with something not so super legal. Was kinda hilarious as neither of us knew about the other until we casually talked about work and he showed his badge. He was really sweet, and just hated his job. Lost soul. Hope he finds a better way. But he's still a cop, so I ultimately wouldn't trust him.

My neighbor is a transit cop. Idk what his deal is but he hasn't spoken to me in six years so I figure we're cool.

I'd be more discreet about my moonshine operation, that's for sure.

I would go out of my way to avoid them

My neighbour growing up was a cop. He and his wife were Christian fundies who had like 8 kids.

I literally never had a single bad interaction with them, and by all accounts he was an alright dad to those kids. I still see him when I visit my folks for the holidays, and when I do, I see his kids now all grown up with kids of their own visiting their parents

Depends on the people, if they are good people then let’s be friends, if not then just ignore them and be cordial. Like with any neighbour.

Not american here, cops here are actually a trained job with multiple years of training before going out. 3 years pure training minimum and the slightes missbehaviour can get you fired and suspended from your job which will be marked down

A bunch of social media accounts with their name and address may start attacking Scientology and right-wing crazies.

I did have one down the street at one point. We each minded our own business and I considered it good for my family’s safety to have a police car always parked nearby

Something else

Closest I came was living like 2 houses away from an undercover cop who was helping deal with a drug lab house in the middle if our block. Never saw them much, nor was I opinionated on cops since I was in maybe 3rd grade when this was happening. So nothing too big. The drug house was taken care of and nobody else on the block were harmed, but kinda fucked since it was a block full of kids at the time.

Nowadays, in that situation, I would do my best to avoid the cops and drug house as much as possible and not get onto either of their radars. Not 100% sure I would feel safe, despite the fact that the bus route I take always has me waiting by a cop building while having had zero incidents over the few years I've been taking the route.

Helped my cop neighbor move his gun safe into his house. We mostly keep to ourselves but I'd rather him on my side in a crisis.

I had a cop two door down for years. I loved having that cop car sitting there every night.

Police Station 100m away. I'd encourage a few more to move in. They do serve and protect where I live.

Would that be worse than the crackhead who lived there before them?