Despite all the movies and press about cops going bad in the U.S., people still call 911 over there. Over here, there's a tendency to hesitate, to wonder if the solution might be worse than the cure.
I'm sure that there are good police officers here in the Philippines, the ones who try to do their job despite having no budget for things like plastic bags or rubber gloves to recover evidence, despite the relatively small pay, despite seeing how much more money the less honest ones get. I'm sure its hard with families to support.
It's just that we don't really seem to think of most of them that way. The ones we trust are the ones we know. There is no real faith in a fair and impartial system.
I wonder if that faith will ever emerge.
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