[MarMema]

And New Mexico comes to mind....forced enemas and colonoscopies billed to the victims. Inexcusable behavior. No drugs were ever found.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

My dad's best friend, a 71 year old Pastor has spent a ton of time in NM. He tells us that like Maine, most of the inner city cops are thugs, but most of the cops in rural areas are pretty good guys. The problem in NM is the same as it is in Maine, the good cops cover for the bad, instead of getting rid of them.

He told us of two different cops that stopped him and his wife.

In Kentucky a State Tropper, riding alone, in a very rural area, stopped him for no seat belt, He showed the man the letter from his VA doc saying that he couldn't use a seat belt, the Trooper said "Works for me", never asked for a license, registration or anything and walked away.

In Ohio, a State Trooper, working with a dozen others, stopped them as the entered OH from Indiana for a cracked windshield. While still polite, he wanted proof of everything, even when told that in NM and in Maine, a cracked windshield is not an offense.

His point is that when working alone rural police are helpful and polite, and not very intrusive, but when working with a large group they seem to have a gang mentality.

He went on to say that unless that changed and they acted as if they were alone when working in a group, there would be hell to pay down the road. Seems as if he may have spoken prophetically.