[mixmax]

If the best advice in the US is to avoid the police you've got a very serious problem. It sounds like travel advice from a third-world country.

[llamataboot]

We do have a very serious problem. We have a paramilitary force patrolling our streets, largely fighting a fictional "war on drugs" and locking up whole swaths of our population. The poor-ish, brown-ish swath.

[bmmayer1]

This. Completely true.