When the history books are written chronicling the shift from police impunity to accountability, July through November of 2014 will be designated as the critical turning point.
Campaigners argue that as police enjoy impunity from prosecution, they have the freedom to act without facing the consequences of those actions.
There is a violent far-right party, its MPs committing and inciting violence with impunity; a police force that cannot or will not prevent Golden Dawn from projecting uniformed force on the streets.
Law enforcement officials say the mafias operate with almost complete impunity, as police agencies remain plagued by corruption.
"There is corruption and impunity, and police are often the aggressors".
The story is fuelled by an ambient hostility to the cold workings of law — the cavalier impunity of the police, the unyielding lines of the legal code, and, perhaps most disturbingly, the narrow-minded fealty to nostrums of law-and-order among citizens from all strata of society.
"It enables impunity from the regime".
