"Hate the crime, not the criminal," a friendly police officer advises Hannah.
A friendly police officer counseled that the simplest way to make the case go away was to persuade the officer who wrote the ticket to lose the paperwork.
When her battery finally went dead (because of a faulty generator), two slightly awestruck cops gave me a friendly police escort to a temporary parking garage.
A friendly police officer is more likely to shoo a truck than to ticket it or have it towed; a friendly doorman or guard can let him park in a loading zone.
The tense atmosphere was broken by passersby who gave protesters fruit and cakes, and a friendly police officer who corrected a spelling mistake in chalking on the pavement: "Trying to help homeless evicted on Christmas Eve".
But Mr. Dhankar was undaunted, saying the photographs could be shown to the girls' parents, or to friendly police officers, who could threaten to press trumped-up criminal charges unless the behavior stopped.
"The public has a cozy image of the firm, fair and friendly police officer," said Mike McBride, the editor of Jane's Police and Security Equipment, an annual compendium of police equipment around the world.
To understand what he meant, he suggested I meet Nicolas Mercado, a former gang member who now runs a popular bar called La Vecindad on Avenida A. Mr. Mercado, who has a shaved head and thick, muscled arms, welcomed me in a courtyard at the end of a long entryway where two friendly police officers happened to be standing.
Most of "Little Flower" takes place in the hospital, where Therese Marie is visited not only by her anxious, angry children but also by a patronizing doctor (Ajay Naidu), a friendly police detective (Arthur French) and an assortment of apparitions, most notably the ghost of her father (Howie Seago).
The idea is to keep officers from being disoriented if their regular-duty sedan has to go in for maintenance and they are issued an S.U.V. Ford also made the two models "upfit friendly" — police jargon for options that go beyond law-enforcement-only standard equipment, like a column-mounted shifter, 18-inch tires, special brakes and under-body plates to protect the transmission and oil pan.
