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is such widespread, systemic corruption an issue in the US? As a far away observer (AUS), the US system does not seem so pervasively corrupt.

• lovich 9y ago
  There's very little to no overtime bribing, it's rare enough to make the news. Kickbacks though, or simply fucking over someone you don't like, runs rampant.
  • hnzix 9y ago
    Confiscation of property and cash seems to be a big problem.
    • lovich 9y ago
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-... Worse than our actual thieves. I am on the paranoid side and most Americans don't think this way as far as I know, but I feel safer walking through a bad neighborhood with a pile of cash than going by a cop. I'll most likely get mugged in the bad neighborhood but the cops will take the money and put me in jail
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• nilved 9y ago
  You're not observing very closely then. Or like, at all.