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| 08 Jul 2013 08:36 PM |
In 2004, a year after Georgia's "Rose Revolution," the new government decided to fight corruption in an unusual way. They fired the country's entire traffic police force of nearly 18,000 officers. Contrary to what you would think, traffic actually improved.
The "Rose Revolution" and the subsequent mass lay off of the traffic police force, was in response to the country's high corruption levels. The population took to the streets in 2003 in order to protest the corruption that had been growing in Georgia since it gained it's independence in 1991. They demanded the resignation of current leader Eduard Shevardnadze. He was later replaced with new leadership.
After they were fired, the traffic police force also took to the streets to protest. However, they stopped after just two hours when they failed to gain the support of the public. Along with this police overhaul, the new government instituted many reforms. Recently, a Transparency International survey about the number of people who had paid bribes put Georgia at 3 percent, which is better than the United States. |
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