"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
> news:100ipdnd2pbdubb@corp.supernews.com...
>> In news:7164002b.0401170600.2798e1a9@posting.google.com,
>> Jack Linthicum <jacklinthicum@earthlink.net> radiated into the
>> > would become even more intense and precise. Has the local cop as
>> > guardian of the community idea gone?
>
> Pretty much. They are still trying, though. There are a few police boxes
> that the police officer and his family live in. The cop doesn't have to pay
> rent, so it kind of reminds me of programs in the US that pay cops
> bonuses/subsidize loans if they will live in the areas they patrol.

I was amazed and pleasantly surprised by the postings by people here
of their experiences in Shinjuku etc. with regard to the community
involvement of Japanese policement. I have never experienced this in
my area of Kyoto, or Uji. Possibly some Kansai joke that I need to
figure out! That said, the police are very polite here, given that
they have pretty absolute powers of questioning.

-- 
G Hassenpflug RASC, Kyoto University