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Leashing Thailand’s Cops

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Feb 02, 2007
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If there was ever an example of free enterprise, it is Thailand's brown-uniformed police. Waiters in Starbuck's coffee outlets are better paid than entry-level constables, making it imperative for them to use entrepreneurial élan to supplement their salaries. That usually means suborning bribes from the lowest level to the highest.

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