Rape is rooted in two reasons. It is primarily a foundational issue.
It is the failure of social norms, from the family to educational
institutes, to exercise control. Thus society has gone weaker and become
loose. People then behave like loose canons. They may have gone to
school, but that is not education, that is literacy. Today the boys only
want Mazaak and Mazaa- and that obviously means disrespect for women.
The police is a step behind and not in step with society. It is not
audited and is monopolistic in nature. If you don’t conduct social
audits, you don’t receive any feedback from the community. How are you
to strategies without any feedback from the ground? The system suffers
from a statistical approach. So, while you may have failed
professionally you are still successful statistically. Statistics hide
information. Statistics state there is only a marginal increase in rape cases. But hardly anyone reports them.
These things perpetuate crime
and embolden the criminal. In the good old days we used to do group
patrolling. The community and the police used to work together. Now they
have abandoned support schemes such as citizens volunteer schemes.
We used to maintain a rough register that contained names of
ruffians. The officers used to visit their homes and check on them. We
even kept an eye on school dropouts. Nobody was out of sight. We did
that with minimum manpower and maximum community support.
Good policing means that the law is the same for everyone. We never
spared any VIP. It was all about being accountable to the community.
Today, the police is accountable only to the VIP.
We need to rise to the challenge and co-opt private security if there
is a problem of manpower. I have trained thousands of boys and girls in
civil defense. Where are they? Where are the citizen wardens?
There are four steps to what I call the Complete Criminal Justice System:
Every one think off giving punishment to the rape crime, not finding the
solution to prevent it.I am not telling there should not be
any punishment for the rape, there is, but not hanging or castration
or imprisonment. These are wrong punishments. The right punishment is to
tie the person naked to tree and throw stones, footwears for 3 to 5
minutes whether he dies or not till that time. That’s his luck. We
cannot give punishment of death to someone without giving him the chance
to survive. Humiliation is the perfect punishment for some rape
criminal, not for the murderer.
(If you have ideas Plz comment here.)