As a single-minded avenger, lately released from prison, he cut a terrific swathe through the villains and bent policemen who put him away.
Police chiefs dismiss such cases as exceptional; in fact, they have become the norm.Mr Alckmin, who is from Mr Cardoso's Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), says that 490 bent policemen were kicked out last year, more than ever before.
He became a major figure in the criminal underworld, working for a local godfather, naively believing in honour among thieves and getting stitched up both by treacherous comrades and bent policemen.
But he exercises his criminal impulses according to strict protocol — which he refers to explicitly as "the code" — a method of conduct handed down to him by his foster father, a policeman bent on psychological control whose secrets "Dexter" has been slowly but punctually revealing.
Others blamed renegade policemen bent on implicating Islamists and maintaining a state of fear.Aside from such surface troubles, deeper problems have emerged.
Senator John F. Kennedy used to roast the Eisenhower Administration's overly-rosy economic forecasts by comparing them to "a policeman bending over a body in the alley and saying cheerfully, 'Two wounds are fatal.
A photograph posted on the Facebook page of Wong's Scholarism group on Wednesday showed Wong bent double, with his hands behind his back, between two policemen apparently walking him away.
AT A barricade on the road leading into a run-down district of Lagos, policemen struggled to hold back crowds of angry Yoruba youths bent on hunting down Hausas.
As a criminal offence, the policeman searches Spears, feeling up and down her legs, as she is bent over a car.
Taken during civil rights protests in Clarksdale, Miss., by Danny Lyon, it shows a group of leering white policemen, one grabbing his private parts and another with four of five fingers indecently bent.
