This story clearly shows, from the pen of a witness and participant in law enforcement activities of the “stagnant” years, that serious moral and ethical problems have always existed in the legal space of the country, regardless of any political and economic situation. For the sake of favorable reporting statistics, many crimes were hidden from registration, others, on the contrary, were opportunistically “inflated”, as a result, the fates of both those who did not achieve justice and despairing victims, and a considerable number of unjustly convicted people were crippled... All this happened. Almost always. The idea of this particular work is to reveal the true motives of the conflict between “the authorities” (not always from personal selfish motives of a material and mercantile plan, it happened that “in the interests of the state”) and subordinates in a controversial situation. After all, you can probably always prove that you are right, the whole question is for what and at what cost...