Well, it's different for me because I'm pretty and if I don't let them know I know I'm smarter than them, I'm basically just a cute ditz who can "Oopsie!" her way out of most things.
For the most part, you're exactly right, respectful and considerate is usually the best way to deal if you've got certain... extracurriculars, shall we say?
HowEVER!
Heh heh heh...
Now that I'm living (mostly) right with Jesus AND I live INSIDE the hood of my city? I've got no warrants, no problem with my P.O. because he adores me for all the right reasons, and my protection is TOP notch. I run my mouth from my front deck, rolling video the whole time. I talk my cash money shit when the Pigs pull up, always fucking with the homeless that have been staying in these parts since LONG before I even went to prison. They harass this one specific black lady that I simply ADORE all the damn time. I make fucking SURE they know that I'm watching them and that I'm recording them and that I'm not fucking scared of them. What are they gonna do to me? I'm not doing anything illegal. At worst, I'll be locked up for 24, my PO will come see me and ask me what the fuck, I'll tell him the truth, and he'll just laugh our asses out of lockup. But my friend? They can do whatever they want to her. There's nobody to check them.
Long ass fuckin' story short, I'm never gonna make waves if it means that there's a possibility that They (and I mean capital They, iykyk) could possibly catch a W. But if they have to hear me talk my shit and smile in their faces and can't do shit to me?
Let me be disrespectful right quick haha!