Help! Police!

In Taiwan, the police are a just another bunch of overworked bureaucrats. Which is why the only time they'll stop you for traffic violations is if that's their assignment at the moment. They won't drive around looking for trouble like the average American police officer.

And they also have the added advantage of not being good-ol-boys. Sure, they have plenty of corruption, but because most cops don't carry guns (they do carry a non-lethal weapon of some sort), they're not the sort of people who became cops so they could push people around.

I know more than a few foreigners who got stopped for traffic violations, and then waved along when the motorcycle helmet came off and the officer did a quick mental calculation of the effort he'd have to expend to explain the whole thing in his middle-school English. An American cop who pulled over a non-English speaking foreigner would probably have the whole family lying face down in the ditch while the dogs searched the car and the translator was brought in from the next state.

The best part is, everyone knows it. If they see a cop, they keep going with their illegal traffic manuever because they know he's not interested. When he's off-duty, he does the same thing.