Originally Posted by GUWonder

Plenty of police around the world are willing to give visiting tourists or other non-settled foreigners more of a break on minor infractions than they are willing to give to local residents. There may be good reasons for such discrimination, even if the discrimination doesn't always immediately serve my petty self-interest or stroke my shallow provincial/nationalist ego.

In Aspen, it is common for me to see some cars that have been parked in violation of the meter payment rules; and yet most such times the authorities there issue warnings to the violating tourists as part of a practice to make the place feel welcoming to tourists and accepting that educating the visiting public doesn't require hitting tourists with a fine and potentially turning them off from returning to the tourist destination or telling others to visit the tourist destination. Sure, the LEOs can hit them with a fine as much or more; but it's not necessarily worth it, especially when behavior and revenue may be better enhanced with education than petty punitive action.