My experience, in being in a fair number of non-US non-European countries, is that cops can vary considerably, and many of them are worse than US cops in many w

My experience, in being in a fair number of non-US non-European countries, is that cops can vary considerably, and many of them are worse than US cops in many ways. "...isn’t that a sign that the police force in question has failed completely?" Sad, but true, in a lot of cases. Hence the suggestion not to talk to them.