Category Archives: police inaction

Take a look around – in Bangalore and Karnataka, honest and law-abiding citizens fear the police while goons and their politician bosses live in infuriating impunity. I wonder what our illustrious Police Commissioner, credited with cleaning up crime (despite a recent string of unsolved murders and sundry other atrocities on innocent citizens), has to say about the inaction of his police force. Were they following his orders? Or do they report to someone else in a higher place, perhaps un-uniformed? If people think twice about complaining to the police for fear of retribution or inaction, what does that say about the police force? If the Pink Chaddi Campaign was a beginning, this incident goes to show that it is not merely the chaddis or the chaddi-less that we have to fight. There’s a long embittering battle ahead. But our biggest challenge will be to keep up the tempo of this seemingly eternal protest. Continue reading →