Standard op for the Russkies. If you so much as get a traffic ticket you just might get cuff around the ear and anything more serious and Russian cops really slap you around. Sometimes they really kick your butt.
And the Russian people are perfectly ok with this.
In fact they insist on it.
Sometimes somebody needs a good ass-kicking to get the message across. If habitual offenders here weren’t coddled and treated like royalty, and instead got an ass-whupping to remember, maybe they wouldn’t be in such a hurry to go back out and commit another crime right away. But like our government sends military lawyers to instruct our troops on how not to offend our enemies on the battlefield, police officers are instructed to not offend the criminals, because they might file a lawsuit.