Every public safety branch has its own 10%-ers. And from time to time asshats like the one noted by the OP costs other professionals.
Station 3 said:
Now if you don't pull over for me if I light you up going to a call you will be handcuffed and booked just like the average criminal let the district attorney drop the charges later I did my part you can bitch and complain all you want in the end you just thought you were above the law and more than likely wanted to have a story to tell your buddies about how cool you are not pulling over for the police... which I have over heard many firefighters brag about before.
Your attitude, if in fact it is more than boasting could cost someone their life one day STA-3.
As for your perception of stories, the same could be stated inversely; stories like the ones where complex laden (small dick, small stature, bullied as a kid, no self respect/demands it from others, etc) LEOs tell the rest of their guys about the FF/EMT who they got to yield to the need to conduct a traffic stop to simply ascertain the validity of a guys credentials just because he could?
Exaggerated complexes such the aforementioned don't die in mere minutes; conversely cardiac muscle and brain tissue does - and if the individual responding is a FF headed to a structure fire with entrapment or paramedic/EMT to a cardiac/respiratory arrest it could be someones life.
Furthermore, let the fact that a vollie paramedic or FF was stopped while responding to an emergency just to satisfy the LEOs curiosity when he could have simply followed the first-responder to the scene, sorting it out after any immediate life threats are dealt with and that those few minutes was the difference between someone living or not and there will be someone going to the unemployment line on Monday, not to mention the civil
law suits to follow. After that stuff gets in the paper and/or on the news networks what may have been an otherwise productive career as a LEO would end with him/her not being able to get a job as a mall cop.
Personally speaking, if it was a BS priority two call (automatic alarm, fractured hand, etc) I would pull over to talk about the LEOs need to exercise his "I got the badge" complex, how unhealthy it is and how he should seek help... lol. However if it was a cardiac arrest s/he would just have to do whatever they are going to do on the scene while the family watches them exercise the previously noted complex all the while their family member/friend goes without care. That few minutes of blowing you guys off because you believe they are going to use it as a punch line may in fact be the difference between a casket and a cardiac catheter.
Just some food for thought.