But Papua New Guinea's police force has a record of corruption and abuse.
New York's lamentable record of corruption makes this a sensible precaution.
However, his government also had a record of corruption and financial mismanagement that apparently spurred the desire for change.
Some analysts have even pronounced the PRI dead, its coffin sealed by a long record of corruption, violent repression and impunity.
And given some of the national oil companies' shameful record of corruption and abuse of oil revenues, sovereignty as a reason for non-disclosure does not wash either.Far from losing out, companies and their shareholders may benefit from greater disclosure.
They are put off by a troubling record of corruption and human rights abuses, and daunted by the prospect of a collapse into civil war after NATO pulls out.
LUIS FORTUÑO Governor of Puerto Rico San Juan, P.R., Sept. 19, 2011 To the Editor: The reprehensible record of corruption and abuse in the Puerto Rico Police Department is, sadly, old news to those who live on the island.
She was dismissed again, to be followed as Prime Minister by Nawaz Sharif, whose record of corruption and poor governance, made worse by difficult relations with the Army, rivalled her own.
Last year, the Institute of Modern Russia, a United States-based nonprofit group that works to support democratic values and institutions in Russia, commissioned Mr. Friedman to make a visual record of corruption in Russia.
It is an economic and political basket case, with a record of corruption and military rule and in recent years the ascendance of militant Muslims who aspire to a takeover like that of the fundamentalist Taliban in Afghanistan.
