JK I don't t know for sure, but some of the hesitation may just simply be the fact that you've never met. As hobbiest we've seen pictures read reviews etc... but the ladies are going in pretty dark.

I've heard that several times and can't believe it. Mid 40's, spaghetti arms, shaved head... is that what le looks like?  
It's always the massage providers that I hear it from, probably because of lack of screening. One asked me three different times and that was after a couple of enjoyable finishes to the sessions. There's a massage place near where I work that I stop by frequently, I found out on about my fifth visit that they had thought I was a cop all along.

6'2" and a flattop

Cop/LE isn't always the first occupation I jump to if a guy has short/cropped/bald or close to bald hair, in shape and in his 30's or 40's ...... it's military (tho I know a lot of LE has military background too).  Though i've met quite a few "computer guys" who looked like that also.....sexy nerds. Being guarded due to appearance doesn't happen with me tho.

I'm hung like a horse...lol

... but I only asked the question directly of one local provider, whose name I can't mention because she's no longer listed on TER.  She mentioned something about her "LE radar", and I asked her what her LE radar said about me.  "No, you don't look like LE" she said.  Another time I asked a provider (half-jokingly), on our first date, if she had some kind of LE check.  She laughed and said, "You're talking way too softly for LE, they'd speak up so the microphone will pick them up."

I've only had one provider do an official "LE check" on me, on the first date.  I told her I don't even like donuts, and she laughed.  Then I did a few other things that must have convinced her I wasn't LE.