Pigs

What’s with the police in Japan? In light of the latest indiscretion (A senior police officer was arrested for drunkenly groping a woman), one has to wonder. Where I come from, we call bad officers pigs. Here’s a recent rundown, as helpfully gathered by user toolongone at the linked article.

Osaka police officer blackmails woman with photos of her naked
Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 13:16 EDT

Drunken police officer sexually assaults woman in Kochi
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 07:28 EDT

Chiba cop caught taking upskirt images with cell phone
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 11:27 EST

Shizuoka police held wrong man for 17 days over wall graffiti
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Police neglect to help man chased by loan sharks
Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 16:32 EST

Police lose evidence in case of student who murdered, dismembered sister
Saturday, February 10, 2007

And I am tempted to resurrect the conspiracy theory that the police were behind the gaijin crime file, but we’ll stick to the headlines for this discussion.