[MH] Underground Fights in a Tourist Resort in the Caribbean?

AlexanderHowl · 03-23-2019, 02:33 PM

As a criminal justice scholar, corruption in local, state, and federal law enforcement is regrettably common. Even though 90% of officers are reasonably honest, the other 10% are as crooked as corkscrews. Unfortunately, the honest cops protect the crooked cops because of the blue wall of silence and, even when they do report them, their superiors rarely investigate.

For example, in my own discussions with retired law enforcement, there was always someone known to them to have 'issues' that their fellow officers suspected were causing them to be compromised by criminal elements, but their superiors refused to investigate because they were a) equally compromised, b) wanted to avoid a scandal that would impact their chances of promotion, and/or c) worried about the safety of their families. In many cases, the corrupt individual was given rewards by criminal elements that were difficult to trace, such as a teenage prostitute every night or a few hundred in unmarked bills every week, so they would turn the other way when needed. When there finally was an investigation, the corrupt individual would usually end up being allowed to resign and would end up in a neighboring municipality, allowing themost to be useful to the same or allied criminal elements.

And this is US law enforcement we are talking about. When we go into the Caribbean, the corruption caused by wealthy tourists makes the issue even worse. Drugs, child prostitution, snuff porn, etc. are all available for people with money who know that they will never have to face consequences, just like those FL billionaires, and the local law enforcement know not to question the wealthy too closely if they do not want their children to end up being served up as victims to the next wealthy pervert. It is a cruel and corrupt world, and the heroes do not survive long outside of the comic books.

03-23-2019, 02:33 PM	#7
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: [MH] Underground Fights in a Tourist Resort in the Caribbean? As a criminal justice scholar, corruption in local, state, and federal law enforcement is regrettably common. Even though 90% of officers are reasonably honest, the other 10% are as crooked as corkscrews. Unfortunately, the honest cops protect the crooked cops because of the blue wall of silence and, even when they do report them, their superiors rarely investigate. For example, in my own discussions with retired law enforcement, there was always someone known to them to have 'issues' that their fellow officers suspected were causing them to be compromised by criminal elements, but their superiors refused to investigate because they were a) equally compromised, b) wanted to avoid a scandal that would impact their chances of promotion, and/or c) worried about the safety of their families. In many cases, the corrupt individual was given rewards by criminal elements that were difficult to trace, such as a teenage prostitute every night or a few hundred in unmarked bills every week, so they would turn the other way when needed. When there finally was an investigation, the corrupt individual would usually end up being allowed to resign and would end up in a neighboring municipality, allowing themost to be useful to the same or allied criminal elements. And this is US law enforcement we are talking about. When we go into the Caribbean, the corruption caused by wealthy tourists makes the issue even worse. Drugs, child prostitution, snuff porn, etc. are all available for people with money who know that they will never have to face consequences, just like those FL billionaires, and the local law enforcement know not to question the wealthy too closely if they do not want their children to end up being served up as victims to the next wealthy pervert. It is a cruel and corrupt world, and the heroes do not survive long outside of the comic books.