The trouble with talking to the police is that they usually don’t want to see you unless it doesn’t matter what you say. Did you get that? We’ll explain in a moment. The police have a polite and continuing (some might say quietly insistent) request out there to speak with Mayor Ford. As Detective Sergeant Gary Giroux said yesterday, “I’m going to keep asking.” The mayor and Detective Sergeant Giroux to one side, the classic meeting of citizen and police frequently features a cop who already knows the answers. Movies and television have this part of their sometimes improbable stories bang on. What was in the bag? The answer hardly matters when the cop has two warrants in his pocket. One says the bag contained bad stuff and the other says “obstruction of justice”. Sometimes its no fun talking to the police.