Filipinos consider their police force to be highly corrupt which goes a long way to explaining the high level of gun ownership there; not only do Filipinos know that the police have little interest in protecting them, they also know that it is the police themselves they need fear. Often it is the police who are the worst perpetrators of violence and crime as they act as nothing less than a highly-organised gang of thugs.
24 August 2009
Manila Malfeasance
The Philippines sit in 141st place on the global corruption index- right alongside those bastions of freedom, Iran and Yemen.
Filipinos consider their police force to be highly corrupt which goes a long way to explaining the high level of gun ownership there; not only do Filipinos know that the police have little interest in protecting them, they also know that it is the police themselves they need fear. Often it is the police who are the worst perpetrators of violence and crime as they act as nothing less than a highly-organised gang of thugs.
Filipinos consider their police force to be highly corrupt which goes a long way to explaining the high level of gun ownership there; not only do Filipinos know that the police have little interest in protecting them, they also know that it is the police themselves they need fear. Often it is the police who are the worst perpetrators of violence and crime as they act as nothing less than a highly-organised gang of thugs.
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