Didn't know that, thanks. Our ticket just showed amounts up to 30 so I just assumed. It felt weird knowing we were getting robbed by police in Germany. That aside, the police in Germany are generally courteous. Of course they profile people for looking black, Turkish, etc, but I see two major differences between German and American police/citizen interactions. Police funding and citizen trust in government. Asset forfeiture laws in the USA give police departments a huge incentive to find cash in people's cars (because the cops can use it on new fancy cars). Also police in the USA basically make their own pay checks via speeding tickets. This might be true in Germany too, but I don't hear about cops giving tons of tickets at the end of the month here. That just increases animosity towards the cops. Also citizens of Germany almost across the board that I have met give cops a lot of trust and they don't seem to abuse it as much. Maybe they'll extort a tourist for chump change once in a blue moon, but they're not killing hundreds of civilians, and they are not bringing people in to a prison state. The incarceration rate in Germany is less than a tenth of what it is in the U.S. If your job is looking for cash and putting people through a system that will make them into hardened criminals, it becomes circular. There will be more people disliking you, and you will have more of a reason to mistrust you.
Sorry for the essay. Know your rights, when to use them, and know your setting and that you are talking to a human being, not a robot. The same applies to situations in America and across the world. Sorry for the essay guys.