Well, yeah, it doesn't work well everywhere. For one thing, there are places (Mexico, perhaps?) where the cops are totally corrupt. Even American cops - I'm skeptical of their intentions much of the time.
OTOH, they're more likely to work toward reconciliation/compensation than punishment. For outsiders all bets are off though.
Just curious, how many countries in Africa have you been to? Or any countries anywhere, if you wish to answer.
In my family for a country to count as "been to" you'd need to have spent at least one night. On that metric it's about 30 outside my home country (with just under half African countries). Countries I have worked and lived in (outside my home country) are eight of which five in Africa, but all in all I've spent two-thirds of my adult life on the continent.
Gee, lovecraft68, you are usually pretty laid back but you also have this, call it vengeful streak that comes out on this thread. Is this based on something in your own life?
There has been a whole thing in France about a woman who killed her husband after years of abuse, and to get her sentence reduced.
Gee Karen, you seem to have a problem with someone who likes to see abusers get theirs. Is THAT something that effects YOU personally? Does it make you nervous for some reason?
Okay, never mind, I see I went down the wrong path with this. And it's causing thread drift from the original purpose.
Camden Palace; that's where I used to go skank hunting. Happy Days.
I went to a concert a couple years ago with a guy from work. Alice Cooper and Deep Purple. We're sitting there and a lot of the crowd is our age, and there's women walking around with big hair and spandex, going the nostalgia route. We're talking about all the shows we saw back in the eighties, and he points to a few women who were in line to get a t-shirt and he's like..."You ever look around and wonder if we banged any of these women thirty five years ago?"
