Shortly after my stepdaughters moved back to MD (in the lat 1990s), one of them was driving home from work late, and was pulled over by a PG county cop because supposedly her car had a burned out tail light.
When they ran her DL (which was a CA DL), they found a person with a similar name (spelled with C instead of a K in the first name, and spelled with an O instead of an E) in their data base who had outstanding warrants. This "suspect" was, to their minds, a "probable cause" match for my stepdaughter.
My stepdaughter is about 5"0", white, with straight black hair, very slim, and drives a VW Golf and had been living in CA for the last 2 years at the time.
The "wanted" person was a life-long resident of MD, was black, and drove a Toyota.
They forced her out of the car, performed a complete search, shouted at her for not having a MD DL (even though she had only been in MD for two weeks) and berated her because her vehicle was registered in her mothers name, which obviously wasn't the same name on her DL. They refused to let her use her cell phone. They searched her purse and book bag. All this happened on the side of a secluded road in MD late at night, with little traffic, and no witnesses.
Needless to say, she was terrified.
Luckily, they let her go with a "warning". And mysteriously, the tail light came right back on when she went to look after they let her go...
PG County has been out of control for nearly 3 decades. They are one of the most corrupt, criminal-filled governments in MD, and that's saying a lot. The PG County police (not the Sheriff's Department) has one of the WORST civil rights violation records in the nation, and has paid out MILLIONS of dollars in civil rights judgments in the last 30 years. At one point in the 1990's, they were actually under Federal Supervision, because of the egregious corruption, malfeasance, and misconduct...
The system in MD is so befouled and contaminated with corruption that "fixing" it has become functionally impossible. Short of firing EVERYONE, and starting over, only hiring people with clean records, there is no way to make MD government clean. And even that might not work, because sometimes, they even falsify background checks for their buddies, and KNOWINGLY hire criminals...