Making the Invisible Visible

        Police corruption is a large issue that is wide spread across Malaysia. Police corruption is when police break the due process of the criminal justice system. This may include extortion, taking bribes, blackmailing and unnecessary force. This impacts everyone in the community. Police officers have pulled my parents and I over and asked for bribes, which is the most common form of police corruption in Malaysia. Most people agree to pay these bribes out of ease, yet this just carries the issue on and the problem will never be resolved if this continues. If the head police offices don't receive these fines, there will be a lack of money to support the police force, which will result in a lowering of police salaries. This will cause even more police officers to turn to corruption as they need money to support themselves and their families. I have found a strange pattern in some of my research  All cases of police corruption that have been reported and brought to court, have had trials over two years after their conviction. I'm very curious to research even more to find out why this may be. It may be that all courts are heavily booked and it takes a while to find room, or it could be something more complicated.  Learning about this issue makes me disappointed in todays society. One of the ways to stop police corruption is for the public to stop participating in it. If every citizen offered a bribe, refused to pay the bribe and paid the fine the proper way, the corrupt police would eventually give up on trying to hand out bribes and the issue would be on its way to being resolved.