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I can't comment on cops in other countries, but I can write a novel on the terrible experiences I've had with US cops

When we were fifteen, a cop arrested my brother for skateboarding on public property. He locked him in the back of his patrol vehicle for over an hour in the summer without the air going. He then tried to extort money directly from my parents to make the crime go away. My parents knowing it was a minor and a trivial misdemeanor said they'd take their chances in court. Which was good because the case never made it to court, because the cop in question was arrested for extortion.
https://archive.triblive.com/news/officer-charged-with-holding-onto-fine-payments/

Also when I was fifteen, I was arrested along with several others at a house party for underage drinking. We all got not guilty, because the cops didn't show up to court to testify. The reason they didn't show up? Because the mom of one of the fifteen year old girls was planning on presenting charges since the officers did a full cavity search on the teen girl yet didn't check anyone else's pockets or anything.

Once I was driving with medical cannabis in my car. Cop pulls me over, I hadn't smoked or anything. He accused me of it though, so he took me to get a blood test at the hospital. Of course I had weed in my system, I'm an epileptic with medical cannabis. He charges me with a Dui. I accept Ard, because if you don't and you're found guilty, it's a year long license revocation and 30 days in jail guarantee.

Last winter I picked up my girlfriend from work. On the way through the city, a teen stops us in the middle of the street, and then a bunch of his friends surround the car and start beating on it. My girlfriend, seeing a cop car sitting right there decides to get out and yell at the kids, thinking it was safe with the cop there. It wasn't, one kid grabbed her hair and started beating on her. So I separated them, ran to the cops window and banged on it and yelled do your freaking job. So he comes out, arrests the kid who punched my gf. Then I took a punch to the jaw from another teen. Some other cops finally show, kids scatter, they let them get away and then ask if we want to press charges. We said yes but that's gonna be difficult when you let them all get away. Eight months later still haven't heard a peep about the case