And yet at no point have I denied that there are elements of corruption within the police force, and not just since the 1990's. What you just pointed out is known and it isn't hating on the island. They are facts. However, these corrupt elements act behind hidden curtains and the degree of corruption is hard to pinpoint. Do realize that you have some incompetent elements as well which often get confused with corrupt. Trust me, I've seen my fair share of them. To say many are corrupt is equally dishonest as denying that there's corruption within the force. I also know for a fact that the police operated closely with the DEA on various busts during the era that has been depicted. The implications that the series made, from dramatic purposes or not, aren't accurate as corruption withing the police force in the 90's was still at a minimum as they had a high standard of whom they let in or not. It's the early 2000's that marked the start of the increase in corrupt personnel due to the lowering of said standard and politically appointing people in those positions.

Now back to the issue at hand. Why have I spoken out against this: Regardless of any disclaimers, people tend to take these shows as absolute facts and I've seen the effects it has on people. Remember the show locked up abroad? Well people thought that Curaçao was the same (even though as far as I know there's never been an episode on the island) after a couple of Carribbean and Latin-American episodes and were frightened to go through immigration. There was this one agent who at one time had to raise her voice towards a belligerent traveler that ended up frightening many people. The problem is that these perceptions, dramatised or not, do impact the perspective on something.

So simply put: I know that there's a problem there, I know it has grown more and more throughout the years, I am not denying it yet I'm still calling them out for a mostly inaccurate implication of the era.