Obviously it depends on the local economic conditions, but say you travel to a middle income country like India or a nation in Latin America and some cop stops you and starts giving you trouble. He obviously is fishing for a bribe so you can keep moving, but how much should a naive American tourist pay? too little would seem insulting and too much means you got completely robbed. I would guess about $50USD would get you out of a traffic stop but I have no idea.
this seems like an important thing to know about but people are always so hush hush about it like bribery isn't standard practice in like half the world.
Feely wise 10-20, depending on severity. Also cops typically don’t want start shit with tourists
Also cops typically don’t want start shit with tourists
yet another example of how bad cops are :(
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
it depends entirely on a pleathora of things, so much so that it is pretty pointless to discuss. Things that factor in are your race, your nationality, your diplomatic status, the circumstances of you being confronted by the police, the country you’re in, the region of the country you’re in, etc. In Dhaka, a white american male who is clearly a tourist might have to pay up to $100 or more to get out of a traffic stop, maybe even more. A bangladeshi might have to pay $1 to $5, maybe even $10, depending on how ‘rich’ you look.
You should really only do the local thing. You can use American privilege to push back in some places and really shouldn't in others.
The point of this website is that we can fedpost without getting deleted off of Reddit. Kill the cop in your head
