Australian police has come up with absurd solutions for Indians i.e "Indians should not look rich to avoid being targetted".

Prima facie the Australian Police advisory may seem laughable, especially understood from an Indian context. Given the fact that Indian Police starts from a presumption that Poor commit more crime and the finger should point at them always to start with. Flaunting an I-Pod or an I-pad and a clipped accent when a cop stops you in India would definitely get you past a local Naka Bandhi since Indian Police have a mindset that affluence cant be a driver for crime. Whereas this may not be the mindset in Police world over. Each Police system profiles crime from its own specific cultural and social milieu. There were muggings and murders in U.S for a pair of Sneakers. The Teen hooligans in London or New York may not be after all your  average Indian criminals. They just want your Blackberry or I-Pod. They may even perceive in recessionary times that an average Indian immigrant has a good job or business and is the ripe target to pick. As a lawyer who is acquainted with the way Policing works and the paradox that criminal motives may not be what they are initially thought to be and attributed, my humble opinion is policing is culture and social specific. The Australian advisory may not be necessarily absurd, given the fact that its not Indian Police who are protecting the respective expats.

is right as i stay abroad but show lower profile to avoid risk