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were in fact more than half of the Inspectors' receipts of illicit allowances, higher than their salaries, from the Keepers of Brothels and gaming establishments.
Police Law was a source of profit to show, and the Chinese had been so habituated to similar practices by Mandarins and their Officials in China, that such proceedings seemed to them quite natural.
11. I may add that it is this facility of being "squeezed" (to use a familiar term in this part of the world) that renders a strict administration of Police Law so difficult here. The facility with which the Chinese allow themselves to be terrified or cajoled into paying a sort of blackmail to any person elected with official authority who chooses to demand it, is in reality the principal obstruction to the formation of an efficient and trustworthy Police.
The temptation is irresistible to the Oriental and most numerous portion of the Force, whilst if not irresistible always, it is at least more easily yielded to by the European Constables and Inspectors. In England, the disposition of the Public is to resist and resent the imposition. Not so in the disposition of the Chinese Community - they give way and are inclined to put up with it, as a matter of course, in preference to resistance.
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