The justice system, a system that orders complete and civil obedience from the people at all times, but how can a system full of officials and policemen who have no moral compass call for our respect and obedience? In many countries today, police officers and visa distributors are involved in the black market practice of trafficking. One of the most shocking countries with a high level of slavery is Japan. Even though Japan is one of the most thriving countries in the world, the police and people pay no mind to the amount of trafficked girls. For more than 20 years the government has opened the country to human trafficking by giving them a special visa called the “entertainer visa”, supposedly given to singers and dancers.
Brazil, this country too has much slavery and fewer opportunities to actually battle this problem.Top anti-slavery officials in the capital concede that the number of slaves is around 50,000. Even though this number seems high Brazil is taking action freeing 4,789 slaves in 2003 and another 2,745, compared to Japans rescue of 6 slaves in 2003 and 24 in 2004. The question is what’s the difference? The election of Luiz Inacio da Silva, as president in 2002. Luiz had a background in organized labor and this made him a great candidate for battling this problem of trafficking. In October 2006 he stated, “This [slavery] system channeled wealth to a powerful elite and dug a social abyss that still marks the life of the nation.”
Awareness is a great step towards getting the public involved, but real consequences need to be laid down for these people in our government participating in the black market. I propose Zero-Tolerance Anti-Corruption laws be put in place to punish not exactly the officer who is participating but the highest ranking officer or official who is supposedly in charge of these people.
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Not only are these problems dealing with corrupt officials happening internationally, but they also take place in many locations throughout America. With this problem growing worldwide, it seems that every nation is struggling for a perfect answer.
ReplyDeleteThere are corrupt officials everywhere. Its very difficult to solve corruption when the people in charge of solving it are also corrupt.
ReplyDeleteI don't think a zero tolerance policy would be effective because the people the law is for would also be the ones enforcing it. Perhaps a better solution would be to offer incentives for bringing in traffickers and paying cops higher salaries.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ally, but unfortunately I think that if we reward cops for not being corrupt the same thing might happen with cops that happens with slave owners. There might be cases of people posing as traffickers for the cops to be able to reap the rewards available.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ally as well. Those enforcing the law are still the ones who are helping corrupt it. Although a zero tolerance policy would be idea, we have to be realistic and start firing those cops that DO get caught doing illegal things, making it public which officer did what, and then also making sure the officer that busted the bad cop gets rewarded somehow.
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