Thai Police: A Law Unto Themselves

[jstumbo]

Have to say the poice in my home country(new zealand) are officious pigs, albeit not corrupt in the slightest

Personally I rpefer the ones in Thailand, and while there is corruption here it is less than in some other countries such as Phillipines, and possibly no more than cities in USA like New Orleans: http://www.alternet.org/katrina/26871/

This is hardly an isolated incident. Another recent Times-Picayune article reported that in April, seven-year veteran officer Corey Johnson was booked with aggravated rape for allegedly forcing a woman to perform oral sex, after he identified himself as an officer in order to enter the woman's Treme home.

Another article states that "eight officers were arrested during a six-month stretch last year on charges that ranged from shoplifting to theft to conspiracy to rob a bank ... In April 2004, 16-year veteran James Adams was booked with aggravated kidnapping, extortion and malfeasance after he was accused of threatening to arrest a woman unless she agreed to have sex with him."

Police misconduct in this notoriously corrupt city goes back decades, and occasionally it explodes in scandal. In a September 2000 report, the Progressive Policy Institute discovered that a 1994 crackdown on police corruption led to 200 officers' dismissals -- plus, upwards of 60 criminal charges (including two murder convictions) among police officers. Investigators discovered that for six months in 1994, as many as 29 New Orleans police officers protected a cocaine supply warehouse containing 286 pounds of the drug. The FBI indicted 10 officers who had been paid nearly $100,000 by undercover agents. The investigation ended abruptly, after one officer successfully orchestrated the execution of a witness.

Instances like these in the US, and for the most part the rest of the western world, are the exception, not the rule.

[Pepe']

My ex's brother Is the Chief of police in Samut Sakon.

Her Mafia cousins ride around the hood on their motorbikes with 45's tucked down in the front of their pants in plain sight.

Interesting crew.

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