WITH the detention of suspended Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders Bibit Rianto and Chandra M Hamzah, it is clear the police are showing their teeth. Bibit and Chandra were detained after they reported back to the police last week, an “obligatory ritual” since the police declared them suspects in mid-September.

Understandably, reactions spread like wildfire. Some people offered themselves as detainees, to be the guarantors for B