![]() ![]() 196 According to data from the Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, around 60 percent of crime victims do not want to report crimes to the police as they see them not as a protector but as a source of increased danger. Thirty percent believed police are primarily concerned with protecting their own interests instead of those of citizens, and 15 percent believed police mainly protect the interests of the mafia. One poll found that in 1998 more than 50 percent of respondents assessed police performance as bad or very bad. Opinion polls conducted in recent years have shown that Russia's police force is in a deep crisis of legitimacy: Russian citizens do not trust their own police. ![]() Corruption and unethical practices are widespread. The legal profession, which was severely underdeveloped in Soviet times, has grown but is still far from effective and professional. The police, procuracy, and judiciary all face high turnover rates, underfunding, increased workloads, and corruption further, they all suffer from an acute lack of public trust. In addition, unrelenting economic crises have meant drastic reductions in public expenditure across the board, which left the criminal justice system with inadequate funding. The political crisis that arose in the course of dismantling the Soviet Union's authoritarian political system has stalled desperately needed reforms of the Soviet-era criminal justice system, leaving it in great disarray. Police torture in Russian takes place against the backdrop of a chaotic criminal justice system. ![]()
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