In my country the cops used to extort crypto miners by seizing their equipment and charging them with "terrorism funding" or some other bullshit. The courts always dismissed those charges, but miners were losing their precious time while their equipment was arrested, so it was cheaper to pay a bribe to the cops and keep mining. But now there's less news about it, and the central bank has softened their stance on crypto, so I assume cops don't bother miners as much as they did before.
That's terrible these cops are just bully, instead of going after the cheaters they are extorting money from miners who hardly makes any profit due to market situation and also I believe we should be keeping our mining rigs away from public view and try mining secretly. In my country police are least bothered about crypto and don't have much knowledge about it.
Cops have different way of thinking and level of perception so if they think that it can be a good opportunity for them to get benefits then they will literally grab it without even thinking, too bad that some of them aren't able to suffer the consequences of their actions. I just hope that the cops in my country are not like that even though they don't have enough understanding about digital currency because we do have some laws and people have to act reasonably, I also think that they won't bother ruining their own reputation because of that.
That's the norm here as well, they loved extorting miners because, unlike the typical drug traffickers, they were mostly unarmed "nerds" with "too much money for their own good". Indeed later the government did some regulation and ordered to stop the seizing of equipment, but the way things works here, it is not very reassuring unless you somehow have very good ties with someone in power.
Justice here is more about who you are friends/related to, and little about whatever the actions and the written law say.
There is a place where you are supposed to get a mining equipment import license, and exchanges are also supposed to register there and obey their rules, which of course the cops know nothing about, but if their superiors tells them to stop they do it (their superiors also get a portion of the spoils, so the unregistered people are "free game"). Doesn't necessarily mean you get spared if you are registered...