He robbed the peasants and flogged them right and left--even women, which was against the law; and when a criminal affair fell into his hands, it might lie there for months, men being kept in the meantime in prison till they gave him a bribe.
Kropotkin describes the abusive actions of a police officer and the injustices faced by the peasants.
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