Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wJ47wqZ0xE&feature=related
This video shows an aspect of the judicial system and specifically how the police departments conducted business in a less then ethical manor. It focuses on repossessing property and money for the profit of the individual police officers and the departments in general. This sort of corruption happens everywhere but the difference between the United States and other countries is that as a public, we are ignorant and naive to what goes on behind the scenes.
For example, when I studied abroad in Argentina last semester, I took an Argentina History class. This was different from any U.S History class I have ever taken and actually was more closely representative of a Comparative Ethnic Studies class. Even though they only have less than one percent native population left because of mass genocide, they still knew that this was wrong and explained what happened. Also, they were aware of the reasons and details behind their corrupt government. I personally even paid off an argentine policeman with one hundred pesos. I’m not saying that this is right but it is better when the public is aware of the corruption rather than ignorant like we are.
Argentina also does not have a very high prison population. There were periods in time under different military rule when the incarceration rate climbed but it was not for the purpose of stimulating the economy through prison labor. We are one of the only countries that enslaves our prison population and in my opinion this is not by accident. I think that other countries have not adopted this aspect of systematic oppression because they know that it is wrong and because their people are well educated they will not stand for such injustices.
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