Who knew there was a cost to "protect and serve" Huh?

Certain jobs should not be entered into for a paycheck, caring, doctors, teaching, law enforcement is definitely up there, right? It should be a vocation entered into by those with the most impeccable morals and integrity that is beyond reproach. It should be an arena entered into by those who genuinely want to be an asset to their local communities in order to make a better world (if hat doesn't sound too OTT.)

Does that sound like the police force that we know nowadays?

Corruption runs deep and paying taxes as you put it becomes an accepted practice within it's ranks. Protection payments sounds like something they should be investigating and building a file on, not partaking in.

I realise that you are chronicling an event that took place many years a go but alas I think the tendrils took a hold and we all know the media stories of those dishonored officers who indulge in such similar shady practices to this day.

Here's to hope of society changing one day soon to a more nourishing, transparent clean way of existing. I hope this is not a Utopian, pie in the sky naive world view that I harbour from my days of believing in father Christmas.

Thankyou for this gritty, fries eye view of a real "exchange" taking place on the street by a morally repugnant public service official this could have been a a scene in many a cop drama or movie but sadly it is not a piece of fiction just a tale of a "piece of work"

Have an amazing journey my friend :)