They intentionally target the weak pretty often. Migrant workers were a favorite for years. These guys work in bad conditions in the US for 5-10 years or more,

They intentionally target the weak pretty often. Migrant workers were a favorite for years. These guys work in bad conditions in the US for 5-10 years or more, saving their money in a big wad of cash, then they'll go back to Guatemala, buy some land, pay for their kids to go to school, and so forth. Police know that they got the money working in chicken factories, construction and field work, and that they don't fight back, so when they find one of them driving south, they stop them and keep looking until they find their wad of cash, then steal it. Usually by the time the wad of cash gets back to be checked in, it is smaller, assuming it is checked in at all. These sort of shakedowns are common in the third world by corrupt police. Make no mistake, this is the same sort of police here. Didn't used to be like this. There has always been some corruption of course, but it wasn't the normal way that things are done.