Over the past few months, there hasn’t been a single day when someone hasn’t asked me: so what’s happening with the attackers, how is the investigation going?
Well, my lawyer has received an official document from the prosecutor’s office, so I can answer clearly: the attackers are doing just fine, and the investigation has been closed because it is impossible to establish the identities of the perpetrators.
How is that possible?! you’ll exclaim, remembering that they were identified by name within just a few hours.
That’s exactly how, I explain in my new video about our so-called “law enforcement system,” using my own case as an example.
The thugs who splashed me with brilliant green antiseptic mixed with some kind of chemical filth really were identified very quickly. They are:
Because the burn to my eye was very severe and I came very close to losing sight in that eye altogether—in other words, this clearly met the criteria under the Criminal Code for causing moderate bodily harm—and because the investigation was going nowhere, my lawyer Vadim Kobzev filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office and demanded that the case be taken away from the police and transferred to the Investigative Committee.
And then, while I was being held in a special detention facility, the reply arrived.
- We will not be transferring anything to the Investigative Committee; the case stays with the police.
- And the police have suspended the case altogether, since it is supposedly impossible to identify the perpetrators. Hahaha.
That’s how it is. So now those indignant statements from back then can only be recalled with heavy irony: that the authorities had nothing to do with it and the hooligans would be punished. Journalists’ insider reports claiming the Kremlin was furious about what had happened. Statements by the leaders of United Russia (the ruling political party) calling it a crime, and so on.
There is simply nothing resembling a real law enforcement system in Russia. That is the single most important fact. It does exist as a recipient of budget money—oh yes, in that capacity it certainly exists.
Russia ranks first in the world in the number of police officers per capita.
You and I are feeding a gigantic horde of police officers, and if you also count everyone else sitting comfortably on our backs, it becomes frightening: the FSB (Federal Security Service), the FSO (Federal Protective Service), the National Guard, the prosecutor’s office, the Investigative Committee, customs, border troops, and so on and so forth.
Of course, people will object: there are honest people there who genuinely want to fight crime.
Of course there are. And of course they want to. But our “security services” give us nothing except mountains of paperwork and growing corruption. The system pushes aside anyone honest and willing to help people, and renders them useless.
Let’s look at the most important thing, the foundation of it all: the number of intentional homicides per capita:
That’s it. End of story. There’s nothing more to discuss here. Russia does not have a law enforcement system. Because this chart has to be viewed in the context of this:
Everything else gets cut: education, healthcare, science. The only spending that increases is on the “security services.” And what do we get? Nothing. We get nothing for our money. And it is an enormous amount of money.
With sums in the trillions, we could have one of the best police forces in the world, and one of the best public security systems overall.
And we do not, for two simple reasons:
The government’s first and only priority when it comes to the “security services” is protecting and preserving the regime, and fighting the opposition.
The first and only priority of the leaders of the “security services” is corruption. Money. Personal enrichment. They steal hundreds of millions and billions—just remember Colonel Zakharchenko from the Interior Ministry’s anti-corruption unit.
I will change this. For less money, we will get better police officers with good salaries and excellent resources. Many countries have successfully reformed their police forces, and we can do it too. It is perfectly clear what needs to be done here—the main thing is the will and the political determination.
I have both, and those sitting in the Kremlin never will.
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