Is corruption mostly a good thing?

[notimportant1234]

But he isn't describing that.  He's talking about skirting the law or not enforcing the law.  While both of these are illegal, they aren't - in and of themselves - corrupt practices.

Suppose a cop searches a car and finds an amount of weed that is just over the legal limit. If he tells the driver, 'Don't travel with this again.  Go straight home, and try to be smarter', he hasn't enforced the law.  If he pockets the weed and says, 'Give me $100 and we'll forget about this', that's corruption.

Boru

 
You are right, it fitted the picture so I speculated a bit.