After investigating this article, I feel
it was made very clear and I believe that the local police are more than often the
problem rather than the solution in regards to the current rapes that have
taken place in India. As the current system stands, Women still have very few
rights in many countries below the poverty line. In these instances, we find
young women being publicly raped and the police not being able to help, or
siding with the assaulter. This is not only a major problem in India right now,
but it is something that needs to be fixed.
As stated in the article, idea has 1.5
Million Police to protect and serve 1.2 Billion people. The population of India
in regards to the way police act and go about working is a major factor. A
number that brings us down even more is that 80% of the 1.5 million Police can’t
investigate crimes or issue fines. This not only limits the power of the Police
to take action against some of the more quiet and [in the view of the police
scale of crimes] unimportant crimes. Unfortunately, we find that India along
with most of the other worlds countries have buried themselves in some form of
hurt that they must end up dealing with. In this case, it is the maturity,
respect, honor and effectiveness of the police when dealing with events that
might seem to be extremely time consuming and [in the grand scheme of things] unimportant.
But what the country of India needs to come to understand is that people around
the world want to be in power. If a movement, an idea gets momentum then it can
be deadly for the government overseeing that country. In the past few years we
have seen governments lose control, purely from the will of the people. If
these problems are not fixed, these small events could become ideas that
turn into movements that turn into riots, which turns into a revolution.
Original Article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/world/asia/for-rape-victims-in-india-police-are-often-part-of-the-problem.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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