I don&#x27;t understand why you&#x27;re getting downvoted. Speeding is endemic in the US as well, and the penalties are onerous for pretty much everyone but the well-off. Speed limits should be raised to fit the speed everyone actually drives at, obviously it&#x27;s not that unsafe, but no area has done that.<p>I think you bring up good points about the relative scariness of Western selective enforcement as compared to developing world systemic corruption. Seems like if you keep your head up, you can escape getting targeted by the corrupt status quo. But in the West, people seem to get caught up in political whirlwinds with frightening randomness. Some dude&#x27;s carrying cash to complete a seemingly routine business transaction the same way everybody in his town&#x27;s always done it, and gets targeted for asset forfeiture.<p>The scale of Western corruption can&#x27;t rise to the level of the whole society, and that on the whole seems to make it worse rather than better when it actually surfaces.