In Australia, we have P-plates that must be displayed on cars if you're a provisional license holder.
P = provisional license, which is granted to you after you hold your learner's permit.
You have to display a red P on your car for 12 months, take a Hazard Pereception Test, and then you display green Ps for 18 months. After this, you take your Driver Qualification Test and obtain your full license.
It is thought that police target P-platers for "hooning" and racing.
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I have held my red Ps for nearly 8 years now (whenever I go to book my HPT, it's a Sat and there are no bookings, so I keep renewing my license), and I don't feel I have been "targeted" by the cops... I have been pulled over ONCE in my supe, and this is because it was a Sat night, so I was just RBTd and let go (they also tried to defect me, but they were just being stupid and finnicky, so they were all cleared).
I once lost my license when I was driving like a dickhead (45kph over the limit) -I was 17, had held my license for a couple months and was late to get to the pub... I told this to the cop, and because of my honesty, they only did me for between 15 and 30 over (thank GOD!)
I think that only stupid drivers are targeted, and only those that drive like idiots feel so strongly because THEY are the ones that have brought this attention from the cops upon themselves.
The only way to stop being targeted is to drive like a nanna and obey the very simple road rules we have.