Two things:

First - You just got trolled by Vyrn. Telling him to go jump in the river ain't how you slow him down. I kind of hate having to point this out because I know the ensuing argument would have been fucking hilarious to watch. Joreth is going to be pissed at me for ruining it.

Second - The problem is the cops think they have to be "one step ahead". They are INTENSIFYING the situation. That used to not be the case. As cop-worship increased, so too did their aggressiveness. Well, that and the war on drugs and several other political actions that basically gave cops a get out of the threat of jail card. Cops don't suffer consequences for their actions the way civilians do, which is completely backwards. If we are to entrust individuals with great authority and the capacity to ruin people's lives, they should be under an almost oppressive amount of scrutiny and should have even greater penalties than civilians for abuses of power and authority. Cops have too much authority, too much jurisdiction. They are responsible for too much and have too vast of powers (and indifference) as a result of so much they have to cover. Their job description needs to be shortened, their leashes tightened and their indiscretions called into question. Questioned and when found guilty, legal action against the officer taken.

As for "verbal" commands, hell, you can watch an episode of COPS and see verbal commands being abused. "GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!" while in the process of tackling the individual. Not before. Not waiting for compliance. Yelling it WHILE IN THE THE PROCESS of violently attacking a suspect. They do this. are trained to do this, so that when the suspect is in court, the D.A. can ask, "And what did the officer say?" It's done so the cop can cover the state's ass when the individual tries to sue. "So the officer instructed you to get down on the ground, but due to your non-compliance you were forced to comply?" "That's not what happened." "Did the officer or did the officer not say 'get down on the ground'?"

There's only three kinds of cops in this world: Dirty cops, cops covering for dirty cops and incompetent cops and anybody who has ever worked in any kind of law enforcement and is truly honest about it will confirm this. Not every cop is a bad cop, but they all KNOW a bad cop. They've seen that cop do things that were WAY outside of their authority. The moment they don't say anything about it (because of some cop code or what the hell ever reason) they are covering for a dirty cop. Any cop that hasn't seen this has either been on the job less than a week or is too incompetent to be a cop, because they aren't paying attention.