Thursday, March 21, 2013

Making the Invisible Visible.

Over the past week, we've been focused on the topic of Police Corruption in Malaysia, basically talking about how the police sometimes take bribes or other things, using their power as the police for their own personal gain. This is having a huge impact on our modern society, where the police are supposed to abide the law, and enforce it in other people, and not abuse their power as another way to cheat the law. Many people are so accustomed to bribing the police, and the police are so used to asking for bribes, that the police rarely do any of their actual duties, such as apprehending people for speeding or running a red light. Nothing really surprised me as of now, seeing as I've seen most of these cases firsthand, but what does surprise me is how this is happening on such a large scale. Learning about this topic made me realize how important the police are to our society, and cannot be corrupt, otherwise having nobody to enforce the law. Many things rely on the police, such as crime control, crowd management, and social services, all of which have to be strictly followed by law. If corrupt, the rights and the wrongs are no longer defined by the laws, but are decided by who's rich, and who can give the police the most money. This is happening so often, that malaysia is constantly referred to as one of the worlds' most corrupt countries.

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