A Japanese weekly magazine has conducted a study that concludes the police in Osaka are the worst in Japan. The survey was based on four criteria: arrest rates, police costs per capita, average salary and number of public scandals reported.

Osaka was given the dubious honor based on its 16.9 percent arrest rate, second highest level of costs (after Tokyo), and its 14 scandals over the past 15 months.

“If you add bi-annual bonuses to police officer’s monthly wages, you’d get an annual wage of around 7.5 million yen. The average annual salary of someone in the private industry is just 4.37 million yen, according to National Taxation Agency figures,” [lifestyle consultant Kenichi] Horikoshi says. “Police officers are clearly paid much more than the people they’re supposed to be protecting. Or, putting that another way, citizens are paying out that much because they expect the police to deliver. It would be entirely understandable for citizens to expect to be well protected by the police, at the very least.”