Teresa got a 600.000,00 peso ticket (roughly $400) for passing a car over double solid yellow lines. This is an outlandish amount of money and it's safe to say the policeman's intention was to extract a bribe. Unfortunately for him, Teresa is both loaded and ballsy so rather than encourage extortion she's going to pay the ticket. Though proud of Teresa, I was disappointed to finally see real evidence of police corruption here in Colombia. To be fair, moving violation bribes are fairly minor and happen all over the world, but it shatters the honorable protector image of the Colombian military/police force that the propaganda on the billboards here is designed to cultivate.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Bribes
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Is the city an armed, military looking place or are the police sort of in the background?
The police and the military seem pretty much the same here so they frequently carry assault rifles. Not everywhere though, inside parks and malls they usually just have batons. They've always been friendly to me when I ask for directions though.
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