@starscream
Ever dealt with a Punjab cop?
Ever dealt with a Marathi cop (especially when you don't speak the language) ?
In the example of the drunk driver - it's interesting how the cop is to blame and you have no opinion of the guy driving drunk.
I certainly have an opinion about the drunk drivers, but this thread is about cops and their habits. Stupid drunks and even stupid sober people will break the law unless they are punished, and thats what separates a civilization from the Stone Ages. If the upholders of the law let people go like this, then nothing would be safe anymore.
Let me add two more things to underpaid and overworked, which will really get your goat - ill-trained and emasculated.
For me it would still be overpaid with their bribes, overweight with all the freebies, and underworked because they don't do their job.
Doesn't everybody want to earn more? Some of us are lucky enought to have the opportunity to work hard and earn more legally. Others don't and hence are tempted to take bribes. Why is that a difficult concept to grasp? I disagree with your general sweeping statement that `everyone has opportunities'. No, everyone does not have opprtunities - it's the luck of the draw. Ask the rag-picker outside your house about the wonderful opportunites ahead of him/her. Being underpaid is one of the biggest drivers for corruption in our government.
So by that yardstick, why stop at bribes? Lets allow them to pilfer & murder as well, shall we? You can start by telling the ragpicker outside your house that he is free to rob you & damage your car if he feels like it, since you understand his lack of opportunities, and know that he isn't lucky enough to earn as much money as you.
And how do we know why they join the force? Has one of your cop friends confided in you?
They definitely ain't my friends but yes, I happen to know quite a few, and they have ALL mentioned this as their reason for becoming a cop. If you read the papers, the nephew of Maharashtra's CM Ashok Chavan, an inspector, has assets worth approx 300 crores. On a salary of around 20k. But then thats understandable, he didn't have luck on his side and is just trying to earn as much as us. Oh wait, he passed us long ago. Time for us to catch up by using the same means should be ok for you right?
There is a basic difference between our ideologies maverick and that is - I believe in free speech. Why shouldn't I float an idea and why do you assume I haven't raised it with Delhi Traffic Police/Government?
Thats the inherent trouble with free speech - its free. However even I believe in that ideal and consider this to be just a debate and nothing more. And nothing personal intended at all. The use of personalized examples is merely to illustrate the point, nothing else.
This forum is about different ideas and we are allowed to disagree. The reason I added emasculated is because of examples in this thread itself. In the example of the traffic jam above the cop probably has orders to let the rally pass. What is he to do, disobey them?
It is his job to direct & clear traffic and if he had done that instead of watching and cheering from the side, then he would have been doing his job for once.
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Originally Posted by blacmagic if you think the idea is actionable, please tell me how you intend to put it or get it put into action.
I did not make a sweeping generalization. you did by bringing up the possibility that maybe our cops are underpaid and that we should shell out more taxes to boost their paychecks.
this coming from a person who was calling my previous post a bunch of excuses? huge disappointment again! surely, Starscream, you cannot be older than most of the walking corpses we call politicians. or are you? |
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