arrested once confronted dozens of times. i've been wheatpasting 2-stories up a building that i scaled, had a searchlight shined on me by a squadcar in soho, had a conversation with the cops and not been arrested or ticketed. in fact... they liked my posters and said that i was lucky that they understood that, "soho was a place for art, cos there are other cops on the beat who'd try to drown me in my bucket of paste." (posters were cut-out 4 foot tall aliens with big penises and rayguns...)

in new york, there are too many cops for anyone to "remember you."

i know when to be a dick and when not to. but judging by my arrest to conffrontation ratio, i'd say i'm doing fine.

but i'll explain myself a little... the one time i was arrested, it was for a bunch of felonies involving computer crime and credit cards. i was young, the cops showed up without a warrant, i got scared and made the mistake of talking to them and GIVING them evidence to use against me. why? because i was afraid and thought that if they showed up knocking on my door, i had to cooperate. eventually, i won in court and had my record expunged, but i learned a valuable lesson. if a cop comes knocking on yr door and you're not under arrest and they have no warrant DO NOT TALK TO THEM. in my case, they had nothing on me UNTIL I GAVE IT TO THEM.

so... i'm very uncooperative now and since then, it's never been a problem. it's ironic that of all the trouble i've nearly gotten into, the one time it became a fiasco was the one time i cooperated.

but again... that's just my experience.