food for thought (I need to vent)

[Garion]

As a former Police Officer, I like to think I was fair. When people called me fascist pig it was water off a ducks back. Nine times out of ten the same people were first on the phone to the Police Station when they were robbed, assaulted or otherwise put-upon.

I used to ask them if they preferred what they had now in law enforcement or if they would prefer a militia or even the army to be in control.

This usually gave them food for thought and they calmed down, at least for the moment

My daughter travels to Russia and other former Eastern Bloc countries, she is fluent in Russian and is often taken to be a native Russian, her friend from Irkutsk looks more Asian and it is She, not my daughter that gets all the grief from the police and the militia.

So I sympathise with with the people in former Eastern Bloc countries. She reports that corruption and bribes are commonplace.

Don't know where I am going with this, but I daresay there are good cops over there as well as corrupt ones.

CHeers

gary