ezbzbfcg2 wrote:
The FBI is more like a national detective agency. While detective work is part of policing, the FBI doesn't regularly do any kind of general "street" policing.
Likewise, do the mounties do local-level policing on a regular scale throughout Canada? I know they issue speeding tickets along the Al-Can Highway in the Yukon, but if a liquor store in Toronto is robbed, do you call the mounties?
Ontario and Quebec don't rely on the Mounties for local policing, but other provinces do.
kraftiekortie wrote:
My impression is that the Mounties are similar to US state police forces in many ways.
Do state police do local-level policing? If not then the comparison doesn't work because the RCMP does.
kraftiekortie wrote:
Take a trip to Nigeria sometime.
Go a few miles on a highway.
You'll see the difference between Nigeria and the US right away.
Because, in Nigeria, there will be checkpoints where motorists have to pay bribes.
In America only
some people get shaken down by the police over trivial things like window tint, how low their car sits or their air freshener, but that doesn't mean the that some people in America aren't subjected to similar harassment as what you're describing. The biggest difference is that the cop involved doesn't pocket the money afterwards, but I'm really not sure that makes things better.
Abuse of power is still abuse of power.
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