This doesn't seem like practical advice.

You can find shitty police behavior everywhere, including the EU, Germany and Canada. The probability is just different.

"Mostly" speaks to probability.

I'm not anti cop but the Sûreté du Québec have a pretty bad reputation.

Thank you - this is the only practical solution. Emigration is maybe the only practical and morally viable option.

This will force you to become very intimate with the local prison guard population however.

He means "move", not "evade taxes while living there".

Does he? Because I read it as the latter, and with the amount of internet bravado that surrounds any talk about the police, I'd be unsurprised if it was meant as the latter.

I know him, and he's moved from one corrupt third-world shithole (Detroit) to an almost civilized city in a civilized country (Berlin) for this reason.

The police in Detroit (where I grew up) are saints compared to the cops in NYC (where I lived when I moved to Berlin).

The NYPD is the largest terrorist organization in the United States. They are a blight on this nation.

So, move to your own private island?