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Bavarian cops are known to be absolute pieces of shit. When I was younger I used to travel to Munich from Poland via bus (because it was the cheapest way), and we got stopped and frisked EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Imagine this for a second - I am a EU citizen of a country that signed the Schengen agreement, and yet I get my passport confiscated and my belongings searched every time I am in Germany. Not even a single "sorry" by the officers either.

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Actually, having traveled a lot I have come to appreciate bavarian cops (and northern/central european cops in general) as being professional and downright civil when compared to some of their southern European counterparts (say from Spain, Italy or France). I've noticed, though, that it always helps to have at least some knowledge of the local language.

There are always A-holes around in the police but consistently getting the frisky treatment would make me wonder if something in my appearance could be seen as cop-bait. Maybe the dreads and the weed silhouette on your cap? Just kidding, but since we don't know what you looked like, it's hard to tell if what happened to you was plain bad luck or something in your looks and/or expressed attitude. Definitely not something that happens to everyone.

I am just a regular normal white guy. You can book a night bus from Breslau/Kattowitz to Munich and I guarantee you will get stopped and searched too.

The cops never found anything, but they succeeded in making me hate their guts for the rest of my life.

So, you hate the guts of people who do their jobs.

It's not the job of Police to single out people based on their ethnicity and search them for drugs without any probable cause.

Probable cause is an American legal concept, not a German one.

It's the job of the police to single out people based on their experience and search them for drugs/things they shouldn't have/other problems. There are always two sides, it's easy to pick one and then cry foul.

Nope, this really is well known. It doesn't happen to everyone, but it happens to lots of Czechs and Poles in Bavaria. To the point of causing diplomatic incidents on occasions.

Bavarian bureaucrats too. What's up with Bavaria?

Bavaria is the Texas of Germany.

Bayern gehört zu Österreich... duda, duda.

Having a Austrian father and a sister who lives in Austria, I say: the Austrian cops are said to be more civil than their Bavarian counterpart (and I'd prefer to live in Austria than in Bavaria).

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